Antique Paleontology Print of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh '1886'

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Paleontology Print of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh '1886'

Name: Antique Paleontology Print of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh '1886'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-1
Price: 895 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 42 × 59.5 cm (16.5 × 23.4 in)
Condition: Fair. Original folding lines, mounted on linen. Shows some wear and creasing. Minor foxing, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-1

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 skeleton of Tinoceras ingens, an extinct large mammal, an original lithograph from volume 10 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata, published in 1886. The plate is printed in black on a large folded sheet, with the plate title "Tinoceras ingens, Marsh" lettered beneath the figure and a plate number at the upper right.

The animal is drawn in full side view and facing left. The massive skull carries tall bony protuberances on the snout and brow, along with a long, curved tusk, and the neck leads to a deep rib cage, with strong limbs ending in broad, short-toed feet and a long tail at the right. The shading is carefully worked to show the shape of each bone, and the lithographer's credit, New Haven, is lettered at the lower right.

Marsh was professor of paleontology at Yale, and Tinoceras and Dinoceras belong to the group of large Eocene mammals he described from the American West.

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