Greenland Whale – Antique Marine Chromolithograph, Royal Natural History, 1894

1894 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Greenland Whale – Antique Marine Chromolithograph, Royal Natural History, 1894

Name: Greenland Whale – Antique Marine Chromolithograph, Royal Natural History, 1894
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13341-26
Price: 200 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1894
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 25.5 × 17 cm (10 × 6.7 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with light toning and occasional marginal spotting.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13341-26

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 Greenland whale, an original chromolithograph from The Royal Natural History, published in London in 1894. The plate is printed in full color, with the title "The Greenland Whale" lettered in the margin below the image.

The scene is a heavy swell under a pale, hazy sky, with the great dark whale rolling at the surface and its tail flukes lifted above the waves behind. Its enormous head and mouth are shown at the front, and a pale spout rises beside it. Black-and-white killer whales surge through the foam around its head, and the sea is a mass of green and white breaking water. The plate is a vivid, dramatic scene, rather than a quiet portrait of the animal.

The Greenland whale (the bowhead) is a large baleen whale of Arctic waters, and the plate belongs to a Victorian multi-part natural history of the animal kingdom, illustrated with color plates of mammals, birds and other creatures.

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