1851 Rare Harvey Folio Seaweed Engraving Antique Print Polysiphonia Obsura

Description: About this listing - This listing is for the Harvey Seaweed print shown. Because every monitor displays differently, expect that there will be some variance between what you see on the monitor and how the print will look in your hands. The image of the print posted on this listing is as representative of the actual print as I could make it. The print is in good condition over all. As the print is approximately 172 years old some paper foxing, toning and other minor defects should be expected & may be present. No descriptive text. No title page. About the Artist & Work - William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) was the artist and engraver of Phycologia Britannica: A History of British Sea-Weeds, published in four folio volumes in London from 1846 to 1851. It was his masterpiece, with 400 hand colored plates, in which he described all known British seaweeds.Harvey was born at Summerville, near Limerick. He was a giant of the day & perhaps the greatest phycologist in history, attending Trinity College, Dublin. By the time of his death, he was curator of the Trinity College Herbarium, Chair of Botany at Trinity College and Professor of Botany of the Royal Dublin Society. Among his friends were both Hookers (father William Jackson and son Joseph Dalton) and it was through Joseph Dalton Hooker that he received many southern hemisphere seaweed specimens.This enabled him to write his Neeris Australis (London: 1847-49). He contributed significantly to J. D. Hooker's mammoth work of the Floras of the Erebus and Terror voyage, particularly the Tasmanian volumes. During two years in Australia & Tasmania, he traveled widely, collecting over 10,000 specimens. His reference work, Phycologica Australica, is of such significance that it is still the standard reference on Australian seaweeds today.This beautifully hand colored plate with vivid coloration, is in remarkable condition for a work that is over 150 years old. The print measures approximately 9.5 inches by 12.5 inches. Condition notes for this listing - The print is in good condition over all. As the print is approximately 162 years old some paper foxing, toning and other minor defects should be expected & may be present. No descriptive text. No title page. About Condition Terms - Toning or Age toning - Toning is the darkening of paper over time. Toning comes in varying degree, from creamy white to very tanned, and is very common in antique prints. Foxing - Foxing is distinct darkening of the paper in small or large spots. Foxing can happen in one fair sized spot or it can be "freckled" all over the paper (and all possible combinations). Offset or Text offset - Offset happens when the print has been in direct contact with a page of text for an extended period of time. Offset can be dark where the ink has smudged or transferred onto the print, or light when the acids in the ink have burned (toned) the facing print. Trimmed - Trimming happens (usually during the binding process) when one or more margins (top, bottom, left or right) is cut down to fit in the selected binding. Unfortunately, trimming can sometimes effect the image area inside the plate mark. Plate Mark - The area that the image occupies. If you look closely at a copper plate engraving you can see the depression where the copper plate was pressed into the paper while the image was being printed, that is the plate mark. Soiling - Any mark on the paper that isn't part of the printing process. Remember, these prints came from a magazine that was later bound into volumes. Sometimes people aren't very careful with books and magazines and often handle them without washing their hands (this may be especially true of botanical magazine that was marketed to, avid, wealthy gardeners). So, there may be actual dirt on the 200ish year old print. Note on Shipping - These prints will be shipped rolled. Rolling is cost effective & non-damaging. Many top tier print dealers roll their prints for shipment. Once your prints arrive, unroll them and put them between two heavy books for a couple of days and they should flatten out beautifully. Alternatively, your framer can press them out.

Price: 19.99 USD

Location: Spokane, Washington

End Time: 2024-11-07T17:19:53.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.75 USD