White-Nosed Coati – Antique Tropical Animal Chromolithograph, 1894

1894 · Views & Engravings

White-Nosed Coati – Antique Tropical Animal Chromolithograph, 1894

Name: White-Nosed Coati – Antique Tropical Animal Chromolithograph, 1894
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13341-23
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1894
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25.5 × 17 cm (10 × 6.7 in)
Condition: Good. Very good antique condition with mild age toning and light edge wear.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13341-23

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

Three white-nosed coatis in a tropical forest, an original chromolithograph after P. J. Smit from The Royal Natural History, published in London in 1894. The plate is printed in full color, with the artist's signature in the lower right corner of the image and the title "White-Nosed Coati" lettered below in the margin.

The animals are shown climbing along a large mossy limb. One coati moves along a branch at the upper left, another stands on its hind legs with its ringed tail raised high at the upper right, and the third crouches on a fallen trunk in the foreground, holding a small orange and red bird under its forepaws. Their long snouts, pale muzzles and banded tails are drawn in fine detail, and palm fronds and broad-leaved plants fill the green background.

The white-nosed coati lives in the forests of Central America and reaches north into the southwestern United States and south into northern South America. The plate is a Victorian color illustration of an animal of the New World, printed as part of a multi-part work on the animal kingdom.

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