La mère de Koala et sa progéniture s'accrochent à un Eucalyptus : une paire de marsupiaux australiens, représentés dans un détail carré d'un rare imprimé chromolithographique allemand du début de 1900s d'une peinture de l'artiste de la faune, Karl Ludwig Hartig (1879-1947). Numérisation haute résolution exclusive d’une plaque d’édition originale illustrant l’édition (1911-18) 4th de Brehms Tierleben (la vie animale de Brehm).
7746 x 7746 px | 65,6 x 65,6 cm | 25,8 x 25,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
11 août 2022
Lieu:
Germany
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus): square format detail of early 1900s painting signed by German wildlife artist Karl Ludwig Hartig (1879-1947), published in the revised 4th edition (1911-18) of ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Brehm’s Animal Life). The Tierleben or Thierleben first appeared in 1860 as a 10-volume zoological reference work or encyclopaedia under the direction of zoologist, writer and traveller Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884). By 1911, it had grown to 13 volumes. Karl Ludwig Hartig was born in 1879 at Blankenhagen, Pomerania, and died in Lübeck, Germany, in 1947, aged 67. He contributed several wildlife paintings to editions of Brehms Tierleben and other artworks attributed to him appear occasionally at auction. Koalas (inaccurately also known as Koala Bears) are tree-living, plant-eating marsupials native to Australia and are recognised worldwide as as an Australian national symbol. They have stout, tailless bodies and large heads with distinctive round, fluffy ears and spoon-shaped noses. The Koala is the only surviving representative of the family Phascolarctidae, with wombats their closest living relatives. Koalas live in coastal areas of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, typically in Eucalyptus woodland, as the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. This image comes from our exclusive high resolution scan of an original early 1900s full colour book plate. Our scan is available in three versions on alamy.com: the full page with its original title and white borders, the full colour illustration without any borders or title and, lastly, a square crop of part of the artwork. D1350.B8001.B
