Antique Ichthyology Print – Anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius), Gaimard 1842

1842 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Ichthyology Print – Anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius), Gaimard 1842

Name: Antique Ichthyology Print – Anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius), Gaimard 1842
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: PCT-57748
Price: 1065 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1842
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 35 × 54 cm (13.8 × 21.3 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Excellent impression with vivid hand coloring. Wide margins present, with light toning and a few scattered foxing spots, mainly at edges, not affecting the image. Plate mark clearly visible.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: PCT-57748

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius), known in French as "La Baudroie," an original hand-colored lithograph from Paul Gaimard's Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris in 1842. The plate is lettered "(Islande)" beneath the French name, drawn by Bévalet and lithographed by J. Bernard.

The fish is shown in full profile, filling the middle of the sheet. The broad, flattened head carries a wide mouth armed with sharp teeth, a fringe of small ragged flaps edges the jaw and body, and a long spine with a fleshy lure, the illicium, arches forward over the head. The mottled green and brown skin is hand colored, and the dorsal and pectoral fins are spread in careful detail. The title area at the top gives the voyage name and the plate designation.

The voyage was led by Paul Gaimard, who made an expedition to Iceland and Greenland in 1835; it was originally charged with the search for Jean de Blosseville's lost Arctic expedition, and it produced one of the most comprehensive natural history surveys of those northern lands. Its zoological plates were drawn by Louis Bévalet, and the anglerfish occurs across the North Atlantic.

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