Graceful Grazers: The White-Tailed Deer and the Reindeer, 1845

1845 · Views & Engravings

Graceful Grazers: The White-Tailed Deer and the Reindeer, 1845

Name: Graceful Grazers: The White-Tailed Deer and the Reindeer, 1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13261-130
Price: 370 USD
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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26.5 × 17 cm (10.4 × 6.7 in)
Condition: Good. Good. Strong paper. Edge on the right side roughly. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-13261-130

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 white-tailed deer and the reindeer on one plate from Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez's Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles, published in 1845. The sheet is an engraving with original hand color, and the animals are lettered below: "1. Cervus virginianus, Cerf de Virginie" and "2. Cervus tarandus, Le Renne".

The two deer are drawn in profile, one above the other, each standing on a small patch of ground. The upper animal, the Virginia deer, is colored in a warm reddish brown, with a branching rack of antlers curving forward and a tuft of green at its feet. The lower animal, the reindeer, is darker and shaggier, with a pale chest and neck and tall, branched antlers, and it stands on a pale ground that suggests snow. The engraver's signature appears at the lower left.

Drapiez was a Belgian naturalist, and his Dictionnaire was issued in Brussels. The plate pairs a North American species with the Eurasian reindeer, which in North America is known as the caribou.

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