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Antique Hand-Colored Engraving of Squirrels and Rodents, Quadrupeds - circa 1800
£240 ($315, €280)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1800
- Size
- 9.3 × 7.6 in (23.7 × 19.2 cm)
- Condition
- Good. The print is in good to very good condition with strong original coloring. Light age toning is visible across the sheet with scattered faint foxing typical for its age. There are no tears or repairs and the plate marks remain clear.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_45631342
Squirrels of different lands on one sheet, an original hand-colored engraving lettered "Vierf. Thiere XXXXI" and "Quadruped XXXXI" at the top, with six numbered figures. The old description dates it to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
The six animals are posed on small grassy mounds and branches against a plain ground. The accompanying text leaf, quoted in the old description, names them as follows: No. 1, the Virginian squirrel (Sciurus cinereus), gray with a reddish mouth and ears; No. 2, the Javanese squirrel, with a light brown red throat, belly and tail; No. 3, the Ceylonese squirrel, with a black back and a huge pale tail; No. 4, the Malabar squirrel, the largest, in reddish brown; No. 5, the Coquallin (Sciurus variegatus) of Mexico, orange with transverse stripes; and No. 6, the Georgian squirrel of Georgia in Asia, in dark brown above and reddish yellow below.
Only the first and fifth figures come from the Americas: the Virginian squirrel, which the text says lives in Virginia and almost all of North America, and the Coquallin of Mexico.
