Antique Print-RARE BOTANICAL-VIOLET-TOUCH ME NOT-GERANIUM-NO. 4-Weiss-1850

Description

various flowers, including violets, touch-me-not and wild geranium (?)

Made by Anton Weiss after own design.

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

Sheet size: 32.2 x 42.3 cm (12.68 x 16.65 inch). Image size: 29 x 36 cm. (11.42 x 14.17 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Some small stains around the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

RARE BOTANICAL-VIOLET-TOUCH ME NOT-GERANIUM-NO. 4-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).