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Graceful Grazers: The White-Tailed Deer and the Reindeer, 1845
€330 ($370, £280, €330)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1845
- Size
- 10.4 × 6.7 in (26.5 × 17 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Good. Strong paper. Edge on the right side roughly. Please study the image carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_37843242
The white-tailed deer and the reindeer on one plate from Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez's Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles, published in 1845. The sheet is an engraving with original hand color, and the animals are lettered below: "1. Cervus virginianus, Cerf de Virginie" and "2. Cervus tarandus, Le Renne".
The two deer are drawn in profile, one above the other, each standing on a small patch of ground. The upper animal, the Virginia deer, is colored in a warm reddish brown, with a branching rack of antlers curving forward and a tuft of green at its feet. The lower animal, the reindeer, is darker and shaggier, with a pale chest and neck and tall, branched antlers, and it stands on a pale ground that suggests snow. The engraver's signature appears at the lower left.
Drapiez was a Belgian naturalist, and his Dictionnaire was issued in Brussels. The plate pairs a North American species with the Eurasian reindeer, which in North America is known as the caribou.
