Fine Rare Prints

Monkeys

By J.G.Keulemans

Incredibly detailed scans of 41 antique pictures of monkeys and lemurs by this famous wild life illustrator

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

$49.99 - order #CD007

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Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

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Benefits

• Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

• Study them before investing in the original prints

• Illustrate educational projects

• Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

• Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

• Scans are of the original antique prints

• Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

• Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

• Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

• Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

Information

This CD contains scans of original antique prints of monkeys from 1894. The prints were made by J.G.Keulemans (who was a famous illustrator of wildlife in Victorian times) under the direction of Henry Forbes who was the Director of Museums in Liverpool, England and also a renowned naturalist in the latter half of the 19th Century. Forbes' work on monkeys was scientific, yet popular and contained accurate, colorful prints. He was scathing about the century’s other well-known work about monkeys, Jardine’s. He writes that Jardine’s illustrations were "comic natural history" and "caricatures" !
J.G.Keulemans signature is seen in the lower right of most of the prints

These scans print amazingly well on any modern ink jet printers. We have printed them on our Canon printer on good paper and found them to be a very close match to the original prints.

Print method

The original prints were chromolithographs.
Chromolithography was invented in about 1830 and was the first true multi-color printing technique, previously color had to be applied by hand. A printing stone was used for each color so highly colorful prints such as these required a lot of stones and a great deal of care in aligning them. The Victorians loved this method of printing because of the rich coloring that could be achieved.

Condition

The prints the scans were made from were in excellent condition.

Size

The prints measured 7½” by 4¾” (19 cm by 12 cm)

How to order

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