circa 1830 · Views & Engravings
Antique Lithographs of Squirrels & Flying Squirrels, 19th Century
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€440 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Date
- circa 1830
- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 32.2 × 26 cm (12.7 × 10.2 in)
- Condition
- Good. Overall good antique condition. Light foxing and mild age-related spotting visible, consistent with lithographs from circa 1830. No major tears or losses observed.
- Reference
- BG-13176-100, -101
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.
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About this piece
Two zoological lithographs of squirrels and related animals, c.1830, drawn by Karl Joseph Brodtmann after Heinrich Rudolf Schinz and numbered Pl. 100 and Pl. 101, from the Dutch edition of Schinz's natural history of man and animals. The captions are in Dutch.
The first plate, Pl. 100, shows four squirrels on a branching tree, numbered to a key: "De grijze Eekhoorn" (the gray squirrel of North America), "De gemeene Eekhoorn" (the common or red squirrel), a third squirrel, and "De Braziliaansche Eekhoorn," the Brazilian squirrel. The second plate, Pl. 101, shows "De gestreepte aardeekhoorn" with a nut in its paws, "De Virginische vliegende Eekhoorn" and "De Europeesche vliegende Eekhoorn" gliding with outstretched membranes, and, below, "De Madagascarsche Aï" and "De Marmot."
The plates mix species from several continents, and only some of them are American. They are drawn in soft gray lithographic tone against the plain paper, with each animal posed to show its coat and tail.