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Antique Ichthyology Print, Haddock (L’Égrefin) from Gaimard Voyage, 1842
£660 ($880, €780)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1842
- Size
- 14 × 21.7 in (35.5 × 55 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Condition report: Strong, clean impression with vivid original hand coloring. Wide margins with mild toning and practically no foxing. Plate mark visible.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Fish and shells
- Reference
- f_46525902
The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), a cod-family food fish of the North Atlantic, an original hand-colored plate from Paul Gaimard's Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris in 1842. The sheet is lettered "L'Égrefin", with the Linnaean name and "(Islande)" beneath the figure.
The fish is shown in a single large profile figure, silvery on the sides with a dark back, a dark lateral line and the characteristic dark blotch above the pectoral fin, with three dorsal fins and a forked tail tinted in soft yellow-brown. The color is applied delicately over the engraved outline, bringing out the sheen of the scales and the translucent fins.
Gaimard's expedition of 1835 set out to find the lost Arctic expedition of Jean de Blosseville and became one of the richest illustrated surveys of Iceland and Greenland. The zoological plates, drawn by Louis Bévalet and printed with J. Bernard, include the staple fish of the Icelandic and Greenlandic economy.
