Antique Print of the Black Tunnelweb Spider and Spitting Spider

1861 · Views & Engravings

Antique Print of the Black Tunnelweb Spider and Spitting Spider

Name: Antique Print of the Black Tunnelweb Spider and Spitting Spider
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13214-88
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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€280 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

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Date: 1861
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.4 × 15.3 cm (9.2 × 6 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Reference: BG-13214-88

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

Two spiders on one hand-colored engraving from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. The plate is headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Arachnides", marked Pl. 1.

The lettering reads "1. Migale de Quoy (Mygale quoyi, Walck.)" and "2. Scytode thoracique (Scytodes thoracica, Latr.)", and the plate notes that the figure 2 is shown in natural size. The large Mygale occupies the lower part of the sheet: a heavy-bodied red-brown spider with a pale rounded abdomen and a dark blue cluster of eyes, with an outline drawing of its mouthparts above. The upper spider is the slender, long-legged Scytodes, banded in orange and pale yellow, with outline drawings of its jaws, its eye group and a much smaller version at natural size.

D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.

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