1829 GUÉRIN ICONOGRAPHIE G. CUVIER Hand-Colored FISH Engraving: POISSONS Pl. 14

Description: Scarce 1829 Hand-Colored Steel-Plate Stipple-Engraving from: ICONOGRAPHIE DU RÈGNE ANIMAL DE G. CUVIER, Poisons. Pl. 14.(1. Sebastes variables 2. Blepsius trilobus 3. Apistes marmoratus) An exquisite, large, hand-colored engraving comes from this famous work by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.(Full title: Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou, Représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux : avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science : ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traites de zoologie) The original iconic plates from the Iconographie are now very hard to find, original hand-colored ones are much more scarce yet, & this large-paper, un-trimmed version, especially in this kind of pristine quality, are truly rare. I've assembled a group of some of the best of them, collected from Europe years ago, most of these are virtually unfindable. These engravings are gems, printed on a heavy, smooth, quality, creamy paper, extravagant for plates of the era. The Volumes: The four-volume set of the plate volumes to Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, (Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by G. Cuvier) It contained a total of 448 handcoloured copperplate engravings and two engraved portraits of Cuvier and Latreille. The plates were printed and hand-colored by Remond, engraved by Jean-Dominique-Étienne Canu and Eugene Giraud after illustrations by Edouard Travies, Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Louis Victor Bévalet. The stipple engraved plates very finely colored by hand, finished with gum arabic, some fish plates highlighted with silver (as is this one appears to be). The series was a complement to Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille's Le Regne Animal which was published without illustrations until the famous disciples' edition. Guerin aimed to "draw from life the most remarkable species of each genus of animals," and often depicted species that had not been previously figured. Cuvier himself praised the illustrations "as accurate as they were elegant." (Anker 191) The Editor:Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799, in Toulon – 26 January 1874, in Paris) was a French entomologist. He was the author of the illustrated work Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of the zoologists Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, Le Règne Animal, which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. Cuvier was delighted with the work, saying that it would be very useful to readers, and that the illustrations were "as accurate as they were elegant" He also introduced silkworms to France, so they could be bred for the production of silk. Guérin-Méneville founded several journals: Magasin de zoologie, d’anatomie comparée et de paléontologie (1830), Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne (1838), Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (1849), and Revue de sériciculture (1863). He was editor of Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle. The Artists:Edouard Travies, Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Louis Victor Bévalet were some of the best natural history artists of the era, & among the best of the genre anywhere. The Plates:Every part of these prints was made by hand: Hand drawn & engraved on Copper or Steel, which was hand-mined, smelted & rolled, printed onto handmade cotton rag paper, inked & colored with hand-ground pigments individually by hand, & they were usually hand sewn into handmade leather-bound books.Condition: Appears to be in Excellent condition for a centuries-old engraving. The hand-coloring appears to remain sharp & brilliant. Typical age-toning & character for a print this old. Overall looks to me to be a near pristine copy with the typical character for a plate nearly 200 years-old. Please peruse the detailed photos.These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, oxidation of the old original watercolors, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.Text Page(s): This one comes without original text page(s). I've added a scan of a sample cover page from one of the volumes to the listing photos for reference, it's not part of the listing.About these gorgeous creatures:Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Blepsias bilobus, the crested sculpin, is a species of sculpin belonging to the subfamily Hemitripterinae of the family Agonidae. This species is found in the North Pacific Ocean. Blepsias bilobus was first formally described in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as Kamchatka. The South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), better known as the soldier but also known as the cobbler, devilfish or soldierfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a waspfish, belonging to the subfamily Tetraroginae which is classified within the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. It is endemic to southern Australia. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Gymnapistes. Size: 8.5 x 11 inches approximately.Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you'd like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we'll do our best to oblige. If you're assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we'll endeavor to refund any overage asap. Thanks for Visiting!

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