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Antique Engraving of Crested Porcupine and North American Porcupine, ca.1825
£120 ($155, €140)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1825
- Size
- 10.4 × 6.9 in (26.5 × 17.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. This antique engraving is in very good condition, with light toning and minor foxing that add to its authentic historical character while maintaining its visual appeal.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_45187592
- Colour
- Hand coloured
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.
Crested porcupine and North American porcupine, a hand-colored engraving of about 1825 from a French natural history work. The plate is lettered "Histrix cristata, Porc-épic d'Italie" for the upper figure and "Histrix dorsata, L'Urson" for the lower, with a faint engraver's credit at the lower left.
The upper animal, the crested porcupine of southern Europe and Africa, is drawn in profile on a patch of green turf, its head low and its long black and white quills swept back over the body in a fan. The lower animal, the urson, is shown with a rounded, dark brown body, a short tail and a short mane of pale quills across the back, standing on a green and gray ground. Both are hand-colored in watercolor.
The urson, now called the North American porcupine, is a native of Canada and the northern United States, and was long known in France under its Canadian name.
