The Old Print Shop

1. The Modern Zebra. 2. The Klipspringer. (Antelope). Plate XXIV.

  • ARTIST: William Harris

  • PUBLISHER: Published in London by W Pickering.

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph, hand colored.

    DATE: 1840.

  • EDITION SIZE: Plate size 14 x 20 1/2" (35.5 x 52 cm)

  • DESCRIPTION: Plate 24 from Harris's "Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa". Latin titles as well as English given.<br><br> "One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna. In addition to the beautiful coloured engravings which render the work almost the most highly prized of the books relating to South African animals, every plate is accompanied by an exhaustive chapter on the characteristics of the animal represented." (Mendelssohn).

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition save for tear in lower right margin and some minor foxing. Original hand coloring.

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