Antique Shark Illustration – Tope Shark from Iceland-Greenland Voyage, 1845

1845 · Views & Engravings

Antique Shark Illustration – Tope Shark from Iceland-Greenland Voyage, 1845

Name: Antique Shark Illustration – Tope Shark from Iceland-Greenland Voyage, 1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-09927
Price: 850 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 34 × 48.7 cm (13.4 × 19.2 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition. Minor scattered foxing in the margins and slight age-related toning. Plate mark present. No visible tears or restoration.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-09927

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 tope shark, a hand-colored lithograph from the French scientific publication Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris by Arthus Bertrand around 1845. The plate is headed "Zoologie," numbered "Poissons Pl. 21" at the upper right, and titled "Le Milandre" below the main figure.

The shark is shown in profile with its body curved, snout pointed and yellow eye bright, drawn in soft gray, cream and warm brown tones with a long pale belly and a crescent tail fin. At the lower left, a ventral view of the head shows the mouth and a row of teeth, with two small studies of individual teeth beside it. According to the old description the plate was drawn by Louis Bévalet and engraved by H. Blanchard.

The tope is a houndshark of temperate and cold seas, now called Galeorhinus galeus, and the plate was prepared for the zoology volumes of the voyage to Iceland and Greenland, a French expedition of the late 1830s.

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