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Animals Art Prints
Animal art prints: paintings, woodblock prints, engravings and illustrations in which animals are a main subject, including birds, tigers, horses, deer, insects and fish. Artists include Ohara Koson (Japanese bird-and-flower woodblock prints of herons, crows and peacocks), Tokuriki Tomikichiro and Shiro Kasamatsu, William Morris and Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (Arts and Crafts designs with birds and squirrels), and Jean-Léon Gérôme (tigers, horses and hounds, 19th century).
It also includes vintage natural history illustrations of butterflies and moths, Hans Baldung Grien's 16th-century woodcuts of horses, William Blake's The Tyger, and Edgar Degas.
The works were chosen for how closely each artist observed the animal, from scientific illustration to decorative pattern and painted drama.
The bird prints and butterfly illustrations suit bedrooms, kitchens and children's rooms; the tiger and horse paintings work as a single large piece in a living room or study. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
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Note: Framed prints require slightly longer production time
A rust-orange octopus spreads across the page, its smooth, rounded mantle at the centre below two wrinkled bulges. Its arms reach out on every side: some trail in long, tapering curves, others curl back on themselves to show rows of pale cream suckers, and one coils into a loose ring at the lower right. Fine ripples in darker red-brown run through the skin, and the whole animal is set on plain white paper.
The original: colour lithograph, Plate LXXIX of Carl Chun, Die Cephalopoden, part II, in the scientific results of the German Deep-Sea Expedition 1898–1899, vol. XVIII (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1915); lithographed by Werner & Winter, Frankfurt.
Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen (1857–1919) was a German scientific illustrator and entomologist. Trained as a drawing teacher, he studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin and taught himself the study of gall midges, working with Karl Möbius at Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde. From 1909 he directed the fight against phylloxera in the Rhineland vineyards, was given the title of professor in 1912 and elected to the Leopoldina in 1917. He drew many of the colour plates of octopuses and squid for Carl Chun's volumes on the cephalopods of the German Deep-Sea Expedition.
Each print is made to our Archival Museum Standards: a 12-ink giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
