Antique Print-RARE BOTANICAL-FLOWER-VIOLET-BLUE-RED-NO. 12-Weiss-1850

Description

flowers: a blue and a red violet species.

Made by Anton Weiss after own design.

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

Sheet size: 28.2 x 38.5 cm (11.1 x 15.16 inch). Image size: 20 x 27 cm. (7.87 x 10.63 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-FLOWER-VIOLET-BLUE-RED-NO. 12-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).