1856 · Birds, Plants & Natural History
Japanese Salmon Named for Commodore Perry, Antique Lithograph, 1856
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€285 · 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. Handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. A few small foxing spots in the margin. All four corners complete.
- Period
- Westward Expansion & Civil War
- Reference
- BG-14475-2-7
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 ninth plate of its natural history series. Two salmon lie across the plate, both lettered as drawn reduced: Salmo perryi above and Salmo masou below, each numbered and named in Latin at the foot under the heading Natural History Plate the ninth.
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.
Salmo perryi is the fish Brevoort named for Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry himself, and this plate is where that name was published. The Sakhalin taimen it describes is now one of the most endangered salmonids in the world. The name ties the plate directly to the Perry expedition, which gives it particular interest for an American or a fishing collector. 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. Handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. A few small foxing spots in the margin. All four corners complete.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
