Antique Print-STILL LIFE-PEONY-OAK-TAGETES-ORBEA-NO. 27-Weiss-1850

Description

still Life with Peony, Oak Leaves, Passion Flower, Orbea variegata and Tagetes (?).

Made by Anton Weiss after own design.

Medium: Crayon style lithograph, finished with hand colouring and arabic gum. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 40 x 29.5 cm (15.75 x 11.61 inch). Image size: 28 x 20 cm. (11.02 x 7.87 inch).

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

STILL LIFE-PEONY-OAK-TAGETES-ORBEA-NO. 27-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).