Tragelaphus - from the Animaux suite

 

Joseph Hecht

  1891 - 1951 (biography)

1929  

Copper engraving 

7 x 8 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

27 from the edition of 100 

inscribed 27 in lower right 

Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 182 

blue-green Montval laid paper with watermark 

published 

artist 

13442 

$450.00 

Tragelaphus strepsiceros, known as the greater kudu, is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa. The color varies from reddish brown to blue-gray with white markings, an adaptation for concealment that includes 6-10 vertical torso stripes, a short spinal crest, a nose chevron, and small cheek patches. The males have spiral or corkscrew horns that take six years to complete two full turns. These marvelous animals are endangered due to a declining habitat, deforestation and poaching.