Antique Print with Hand Coloring of a Pale-Throated Sloth

Name: Antique Print with Hand Coloring of a Pale-Throated Sloth
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13585-18
Price: 290 USD
Availability: InStock

$290

€260 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

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

Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 24.3 × 14.7 cm (9.6 × 5.8 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Reference: BG-13585-18

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

Three-toed sloth, a hand-colored engraving titled "Three Toed Sloth. Var.", with the Latin name "Bradypus Tridactylus. Var." beneath it, published in London by G.B. Whittaker in 1825. The imprint is engraved in small letters at the foot of the sheet.

The sloth is shown from behind and the side, clinging to a thick curving branch with one long-clawed arm hooked over the top. Its long coat is drawn in fine pale and gray-brown hair with a dark mane across the shoulders, and the face looks back toward the viewer. A soft screen of green foliage fills the background.

The pale-throated sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, lives in the tropical forests of northern South America and spends nearly its whole life hanging from the branches of trees. George Byrom Whittaker was a London publisher active in the 1820s, and the plate was made as one of a series of natural history subjects.

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