Sunrise Tellin Muscheln Vintage 1991 Muscheldruck Victor altes Bild CNHPS #75

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Sunrise Tellin Shells Vintage 1991 Shell Print Victor A colour print, rescued from a disbound book of Shell prints from 1991, with unrelated text on the reverse. Original printing date 1843, this is a reprint.

Suitable for framing, the image size is approx 8.5" x 11.5" or 21.5cm x 29cm edge to edge plus small white border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print due to being on the reverse side of the previous print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used.

Sunrise Tellin (1843) TELLINA RADIATA (Sunrise Tellin). Hand-coloured engraving by Victor from original drawings by Victoire Chenu, p1. 1 of Tellina from Part 18 (1843) of J.C. Chenu's Illustrations Conchyliologiques &c, 1842-53. After Baron Delessert had acquired the shells amassed by Prince Masséna, which included 50,000 shells formerly owned by the Chevalier de Lamarck, he had the largest shell collection ever formed by a private individual in France. Such a collection needed constant care and attention and so Delessert arranged for Louis Charles Kiener, who had worked for Prince Masséna, to act as curator. But, after a short time, Kiener took up an appointment at the Natural History Museum in Paris and Delessert had to find a new curator. As Prefect of Police, Delessert came to know Jean Charles Chenu, a military doctor and surgeon to the Paris municipal guard, and offered him the post. According to a catalogue Chenu published in 1844, Delessert's collection then contained about 25,000 species in three hundred genera and totalled 150,000 specimens. Delessert himself had already published a sumptuous volume illustrating a selection of Lamarck's previously unfigured shells, one of its plates being reproduced earlier in this book, but with Chenu as his protégé he planned a series of illustrated monographs more magnificient than any seen before or since. The plan materialized as Chenu's masterpiece, the Illustrations Conch yliologiques, published between 1842 and 1853 in eighty-five parts, collected up into four lavishly illustrated folio volumes dedicated to his patron Delessert. But, as so often happens with grandiose schemes, it remained unfinished, as many of the plates were published without accompanying text. The project petered out after Delessert's death in 1847, although his collection, under Chenu's continuing curatorship, was the source of many illustrations for Kiener's Species Général. In 1869, Delessert's heirs, having tried vainly to get the Natural History Museum in Paris to take responsibility for his superb and historically important collection, presented it to the city of Geneva, where the family had strong ties. Chenu, an old soldier and by then infirm and with his eyesight failing, retired to the Hotel des Invalides, where he died in November 1879. Shown here are several colour varieties of the Sunrise Tellin, a shell common in the coral sands of the West Indies. As in many tellins, the back (or posterior end) of the shell is bent to the right, which helps the burrowing animal to assume its normal position, lying on its left side with its concave surface uppermost. The graceful lines and delicate colours of the Sunrise Tellin may never be portrayed more exquisitely than they are in this plate.

  • Condition: This is a vintage print, not a copy and can show normal signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print.
  • Artist: Victor
  • Size: Small
  • Material: Lithograph
  • Subject: Sea Shells
  • Source: Disbound Book Published 1991
  • Type: Print
  • Year of Production: 1991
  • Item Height: 11.5" or 29cm
  • Style: Vintage
  • Theme: Nature, Natural History
  • Features: Original 1991 Bookplate
  • Production Technique: Lithography
  • Item Width: 8.5" or 21.5cm
  • Time Period Produced: 1990-1999

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