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Antique Bird Print of Titmouses by American Lithographer Prang, 1898
£75 ($100, €90)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1898
- Size
- 12.6 × 9.6 in (32 × 24.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_26271182
Titmice, an original chromolithograph from the natural history set Animate Creation, published in New York by Selmar Hess in 1898. The sheet is printed in color from stone, with the plate title "Titmice" set below the image, the publisher's line "Selmar Hess, Publisher, N.Y." beneath the picture, and the printer's credit to L. Prang and Co. at the lower left.
Five small birds are gathered in a wooded setting, perched and clinging to the branches of a tree hung with trailing moss. A black-capped, yellow-breasted bird with white cheeks sits at the top, a blue-capped bird hangs head down beneath it, and others with brown backs and crests perch lower, one pecking at a mossy limb beside a cut stump. The background is washed in soft warm greens and a pale pink sky.
Louis Prang, a German-born printer in Boston, was the most important American color printer of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the chromolithograph in the United States. This plate is an American-printed natural history illustration, and the birds shown look like Old World tits.
