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Antique Hand Colored Print of a Newfoundland and St. Bernard Dog
£330 ($435, €390)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 13.3 × 9.4 in (33.7 × 24 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_32771562
- 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.
A Newfoundland dog and a St. Bernard on one sheet, an original hand-colored lithograph from H. R. Schinz's Naturhistorische Abbildungen der Säugethiere, published in 1824, with the lithographs by Brodtmann. The plate is numbered 38 in the upper right corner.
The upper dog is lettered "Neufundländischer Hund. Canis terrae novae. Chien de terre-neuve." It stands in profile on a patch of green shadow, white and liver-brown in coat with a curled plumed tail. Below it, lettered "Barry, Hund vom St. Bernhardsberg. Chien de St. Bernhard.", is the famous St. Bernard, a big red-and-white dog in a spiked collar, shown walking head down with the shadow of its feet in green wash.
Both animals are named in German, Latin and French, the usual practice of such natural history plates, and the careful coloring brings out the difference in coat between the two breeds.
