1856 · Birds, Plants & Natural History
Japanese Reef Fish, Six Figures, Perry Expedition Lithograph, 1856
$300
€270 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Date
- 1856
- Maker
- James Carson Brevoort, with the figures drawn by the artists of the United States Japan Expedition
- Kind
- Birds, Plants & Natural History
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Color
- Printed color
- Size
- 22 × 29.5 cm (8.7 × 11.6 in)
- Condition
- Good. Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. All four corners complete.
- Period
- Westward Expansion & Civil War
- Reference
- BG-14475-2-4
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
This is an original antique lithographed plate of Japanese fishes from the official report of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan, the sixth plate of its natural history series. Six fishes are arranged across the plate in strong color and numbered one to six, with Etroplus fumosus and Apistus rubripinnis lettered as drawn the size of life. They include the banded pennant coralfish Heniochus macrolepidotus, the green damselfish Glyphisodon smaragdinus, the anemonefish Amphiprion frenatus and the armored pineapple fish Monocentris japonicus.
It belongs to the natural history plates of the official Perry expedition report, the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, published at Washington in 1856 by order of Congress. The figures were taken from recent specimens by the artists attached to the squadron, and James Carson Brevoort supplied the scientific notes. The drawing on this plate is credited to H. Patterson.
This is the brightest plate in the series and the one that reads as pure decoration from across a room, with an anemonefish and a pennant coralfish among its six figures. For a bathroom, a child's room or any coastal house it is the obvious sheet of the set. The plates frame well in a simple pale frame and look well in a run of two or three along a hallway, a kitchen or a bathroom wall.
Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. All four corners complete.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
