Antique Print of Gaimard’s Skate – Raia gaimardi – Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1845

1845 · Views & Engravings

Antique Print of Gaimard’s Skate – Raia gaimardi – Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1845

Name: Antique Print of Gaimard’s Skate – Raia gaimardi – Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-09947
Price: 875 USD
Availability: InStock

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€780 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 48.7 × 34 cm (19.2 × 13.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Very light age toning in the margins and minimal spotting. The image area is clean and the plate impression is crisp. Original hand-coloring remains vivid and untouched.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-09947

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 skate seen from above, "La Raie de Gaimard," a hand-colored lithograph from the zoological volumes of the French Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris by Arthus Bertrand in 1845. The plate is headed "Zoologie" with "Poissons" and its plate number at the upper right, and the locality "(Islande)" is lettered beneath the title.

The skate fills most of the sheet, drawn flat with its kite-shaped body in dark brown, mottled with pale spots across the wings, its snout pointed and its eyes and spiracles clearly drawn on the upper surface. The pelvic fins stand out at the base of the tail, and the long tail curves downward to the right, banded with pale and dark and ending in two small fins tinted in orange. The old description names Louis Bévalet as the artist and H. Blanchard as the lithographer, and gives the plate as "Poissons, Pl. 2."

The species is named for Joseph Paul Gaimard, a French naval surgeon and naturalist who took part in several voyages of exploration, including the Iceland and Greenland expedition.

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