Framed and on the wall
Frame and rooms are illustrations of how the print could look; the description says what is included.
Set of 3 Antique Prints of Frogs and Toads
£375 ($495, €440)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 9.2 × 6 in (23.4 × 15.3 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Section
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Reference
- f_34631742
Three plates of frogs and toads from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. Each is a hand-colored engraving headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Reptiles", with a plate number and captions in French and Latin at the foot.
Every plate shows two animals in a small landscape. On the left plate a dark blue-gray toad sits above a mottled frog with long toes on a rock. The middle plate has a small brown frog on bare ground above a green-spotted toad among reeds, and the right plate shows a dark toad beside broad leaves above a yellow-brown toad with broad, star-like fingers. The captions on the right-hand plate include "Pipa americana", the Surinam toad of tropical South America, set beside the Cape clawed frog.
D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.
