Antique Print of a Dog from Baffin Bay Greenland and a Dog Sled, ca.1800

1800 · Views & Engravings

Antique Print of a Dog from Baffin Bay Greenland and a Dog Sled, ca.1800

Name: Antique Print of a Dog from Baffin Bay Greenland and a Dog Sled, ca.1800
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12902-48A
Price: 370 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1800
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.8 × 19.4 cm (9.4 × 7.6 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Minor wear and creasing. Two small pieces of tape on verso, no text on verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-12902-48A

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

A dog from Baffin Bay and the sled it pulls, an original antique engraving with hand color from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder, published in Weimar around 1800. The plate is headed "Saugethiere XCVII" and "Quadrupedes XCVII" and carries three numbered figures.

Figure 1, at the bottom, is a large dark-coated dog with a thick ruff and pricked ears, standing on a blue ground. Figure 2 shows the sled in detail: a long low platform of lashed wooden slats on broad runners, with a curved upright at the front and a cloth hanging from it. Figure 3, at the upper right, shows the same sled in use, drawn small with a team of dogs pulling it across a snowy plain. The lettering names the animals as coming from Baffin Bay, the arm of the Arctic and North Atlantic between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland.

The plate belongs to the natural history sections of the Bilderbuch, which Bertuch (1747 to 1822), a German publisher, issued as a children's encyclopedia in many volumes from 1790 to 1830, illustrated with about 1,200 engraved plates on animals, plants, costume and many other subjects.

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