Antique Print-RARE BOTANICAL-BOUQUET-FLOWER-IRIS-PEONY-NO. 20-Weiss-1850

Description

a bouquet of various unidentified wildflowers.

Made by Anton Weiss after own design.

Medium: Handcoloured crayon style lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 29.5 x 43 cm (11.61 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 28.5 x 36 cm. (11.22 x 14.17 inch).

Condition: excellent, given age. Minimal tiny stains in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

RARE BOTANICAL-BOUQUET-FLOWER-IRIS-PEONY-NO. 20-ANTON WEISS | DPO-PCO-B1-04

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Anton Weiss (1801-1851), a Austrian lithographer and painter of still lives of flowers, fruit and feral. He studied in Amsterdam under J.A. Daiwaille. Desguerrois was a Dutch lithographic publisher (active 1813-1874).

Biography artist: Printed by Desguerrois. Desguerrois was a Dutch lithographic publisher (active 1813-1874).