19th Century Animal Prints

Antelopes is a color lithograph realized by an anonymous illustrator in 1860. Image dimensions: 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Titled in pencil bottom left, p. 32: Antilopen. The print is in very...

"Stag Beetle & Longicorn Beetle" is an original color lithograph by Louis Prang. It depicts two forest-dwelling beetles. The artist signed the piece in the stone lower left. It was published by Selmar Hess in New York. 8" x 5" art 19 3/8" x 16" framed Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card". Prang's early activities in the US publishing architectural books and making leather goods were not very successful, and he began to make wood engravings for illustrations in books. In 1851 he worked for Frank Leslie, art director for Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and later with John Andrew. In 1851, he married Rosa Gerber, a Swiss woman he had met in Paris in 1846. In 1856, Prang and a partner created a firm, Prang and Mayer, to produce lithographs. The company specialized in prints of buildings...

White-faced Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm Excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia' Thi...

This lithograph in colors with raised chop mark was printed by Imprimerie Chaix in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, 1899, on fine woven, heavy stock paper. Measures 15 ¾ x 11 3/8 (40 x 29 c...

Dog and Fox Cross 1887 Etching 3 x 5

Striking 19th century engraving of a toucan hand colored by artist and naturalist Jacques Barraband (1767-1809 ) first published in Paris 1801. Presented under glass in a lacquered w...

The First Meeting, Jerome Park, N. Y. is an original proof before letters of a hand colored lithograph published in 1873 by the prolific German American artist and publisher Henry Schile...

"Camanche Inscription on the Shoulder Blade of a Buffalo" is a lithograph after an original drawing by Seth Eastman. It depicts Native American inscriptions on an animal bone. It was...

"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...

"Weaver Birds" is an original color lithograph by Louis Prang. It depicts multiple weaver birds with leaves surrounding them. 8 1/4" x 5" image 12 1/2" x...

This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Mullet, Asparagus, and Camellia (魚尽くし ぼら、うど、椿), from a series known as Large Fish Size: Oban, 38 * 26.5 cm Edo period Excellent impression and ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) Sweet Sea Bream, Mebaru, and Horseradish (魚尽くし 甘鯛、 目ばる、 わさび) From a series known as Large Fish Size: Oban 38 * 26.5 cm Edo period Excellent imp...

Set of four antique French engravings depicting lizard species as drawn from a scholastic folio with the expected foxing and presented in tool...

Two Horses Under a Tree by Félix Pissarro (1874-1897) Etching and aquatint 11 x 17 cm (4 ³/₈ x 6 ³/₄ inches) Exhibition: London, Stern Pissarro Gallery, Camille Pissarro & his Desce...

Naga Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) Bonito and Saxifrage (魚尽くし 鰹), from a series known as Large Fish Size: Oban, 38 * 26.3 cm Edo period A pinhole on the left, otherwise excellent i...

John Gould (British, 1804-1881) Nasiterna Bruijni c. 1849-1861 Hand Colored Lithograph Image Size: approx 19.5 x 13.5 inches Framed Size: 27 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. He was for some time under the care of J T Aiton, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy, and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist, and his skill led to him becoming the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827. Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists, and also meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Society. In 1830 a collection of birds arrived from the Himalayas, many not previously described. Gould published these birds in A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830-1832). The text was by Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and the illustrations were lithographed by Gould's wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Coxen of Kent. This work was followed by four more in the next seven years including Birds of Europe in five volumes - completed in 1837, with the text written by Gould himself, edited by his clerk Edwin Prince. Some of the illustrations were made by Edward Lear as part of his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae in 1832. Lear however was in financial difficulty, and he sold the entire set of lithographs to Gould. The books were published in a very large size, imperial folio, with magnificent coloured plates. Eventually 41 of these volumes were published with about 3000 plates. They appeared in parts at £3 3s. a number, subscribed for in advance, and in spite of the heavy expense of preparing the plates, Gould succeeded in making his ventures pay and in realizing a fortune. In 1838 he and his wife moved to Australia to work on the Birds of Australia and shortly after his return to England, his wife died in 1841. When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification. He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the Galápagos Islands, which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and finches were in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species." This story made the newspapers. In March, Darwin met Gould again, learning that his Galápagos "wren" was another species of finch and the mockingbirds he had labeled by island were separate species rather than just varieties, with relatives on the South American mainland. Subsequently Gould advised that the smaller southern Rhea specimen that had been rescued from a Christmas dinner...

Three Hens by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Pochoir 31.8 x 48.3 cm (12 ½ x 19 inches) Signed with Estate stamp and épreuve d'état Provenance Private Collection, London Artis...

Horse by Félix Pissarro (1874-1897) Wood engraving 10 x 9 cm (4 x 3 ¹/₂ inches) Artist biography: Félix Pissarro, affectionately known to his family as “Titi”, was born in Pontoise ...

Himalayan Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...

MacGregor's Niltava - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...

Philippine-Islands Thickhead - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of A...