Name: Antique Print-DODO-CASSOWARY-OSTRICH-GREAT BUSTARD-KIWI-Rees-Oken-1833
SKU: PCO-28745
Availability: InStock

Antique Print-DODO-CASSOWARY-OSTRICH-GREAT BUSTARD-KIWI-Rees-Oken-1833

€145.00

‘PLATE 86. TRAPPEN (..).’

– This original antique print shows various birds; dodo (Raphus cucullatus), kiwi species, great bustard (Otis tarda), cassowary species, ostrich.

In stock

SKU: PCO-28745 Category: Birds Tag: Birds

Description

Medium: Lithograph with original old hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 23 x 30 cm. (9.06 x 11.81 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Minor foxing/staining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DODO-CASSOWARY-OSTRICH-GREAT BUSTARD-KIWI | PCO-A194-36

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This old antique print originates from: ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s allgemeiner Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’, published by Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung in Stuttgart, Germany 1833 ? 1841.

Biography artist: Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), was a German transcendental naturalist, philosopher & physician. Born Okenfuss, the son of a farmer, he simplified his name to Oken while at medical school in Freiburg, Bavaria. Oken was a prolific & vocal writer, lecturer and theorist, publishing many philosophical treatises during his life. His masterpiece and lasting legacy to the world is the 13-volume ‘Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’ (Natural History for all Social Ranks), first published between 1833 and 1841. This plate engraved by J. Rees.