The White Fox of Canada – Elegant Arctic Wildlife Engraving Under Moonlight 1801

1801 · Views & Engravings

The White Fox of Canada – Elegant Arctic Wildlife Engraving Under Moonlight 1801

Name: The White Fox of Canada – Elegant Arctic Wildlife Engraving Under Moonlight 1801
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-06902
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1801
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26 × 21 cm (10.2 × 8.3 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Very good for age. Light overall toning and minor handling signs. Please study the scan carefully for any small edge wear or faint age marks.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-06902

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 Arctic fox, "Le Renard Blanc du Canada," a hand-colored copper engraving signed "Hulk Sculp." and numbered "Tom. VII." The old description identifies the engraver as Abraham Jacobsz Hulk and ties the plate to the natural history of the Comte de Buffon, c.1801.

The animal stands in profile on a mossy rock ledge, with long, shaggy white fur drawn hair by hair. The scene is a night landscape. A crescent moon shows between heavy clouds at the upper left, and a conifer grows on the rocks at the right. A small hut with a smoking chimney stands in the middle distance at the left, and a pool of water with a fallen log lies in the foreground. The coloring is delicate, in grays and blues for the sky and greens and ochres for the ground.

The caption's "Canada" reflects the way 18th-century naturalists located northern species. Buffon's multi-volume Histoire naturelle was the standard reference on animals for readers across Europe, and its plates were reissued in many editions.

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