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Original Antique Print of a Wild Boar and a Lion, 1811
$300 (£230, €270)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1811
- Size
- 7.7 × 9.8 in (19.6 × 25 cm)
- Condition
- Fair. Shows wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_32030412
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.
Antique print titled 'Wild Boar and Lion'. Old print of a wild boar and a lion. This print originates from a series depicting fables by Samuel Howitt. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors.
A lion and wild boar fight while vultures circle above. Wild boar and lion. Illustration of a Greek fable. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811.
