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Lavender, Thyme and Sage, Antique German Herb Plates, Set of Three, 1890
$500 (£375, €450)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat or rolled, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- circa 1890
- Size
- 13.4 × 17.7 in (34 × 45 cm)
- Technique
- Chromolithograph
- Coloring
- Printed color
- Condition
- Good. Even age toning throughout. Handling soiling along the edges of all three sheets. Light foxing in the margins of one of the three sheets. Slight wear at the corners of one of the three sheets.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Botanical
- Reference
- BG-12369-1-71
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 set of three original antique German botanical chromolithographs. They are three original sheets sold together, and the set is never split. The three plates are Tafel 71, the mint family; Tafel 72, the mint family; Tafel 73, the mint family, European and tropical. They were printed in color in Stuttgart about 1890.
All three plates come from a German botanical atlas published in Stuttgart about 1890, a folio work in which each numbered plate gathers a whole plant family and prints the Latin name of every figure with its German name beneath. Each sheet is numbered as a Tafel at the upper right and carries a caption band in which every figure is numbered and named in Latin with the German name beneath. No artist, engraver, printer or publisher line is printed on any of them, which is normal for plates taken from a bound atlas of this kind. The printing is lithographic throughout, a fine black key line with crayon hatching and flat color laid from separate stones, with no halftone screen anywhere.
Sold as a set these sheets do something a single plate cannot: they run consecutively through the same part of the plant kingdom, so the grouping on the wall is the same grouping the botanist made. They are the same size, the same orientation and the same palette, so one frame specification covers all of them. A run of three in matching frames above a sideboard, along a hallway or over a dining table is a simple arrangement that works in most rooms.
Even age toning throughout. Handling soiling along the edges of all three sheets. Light foxing in the margins of one of the three sheets. Slight wear at the corners of one of the three sheets.
These are original antique plates, not modern reproductions. This item is sold unframed.
