Antique Print-STUFENALTER-STAGES OF LIFE-MAN-May-Leiber-1881

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Das Stufenalter des Menschen' - ('The steps of the ages'). This plate shows an allegorical pyramid from birth to 100 years. Each step shows another stage in a man's life. A vignette in the center bottom shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with Eve taking the apple from the Tree of Knowledge and handing it to Adam. Animals are ambling around.

Condition: Good, given age. Margins cropped close to the image edge. Dampstained in the lower margin and edge of the image. Soiling in the top and left edge. Overall browning. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Chromolithograph on wove paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 41.9 x 32.8 cm. The image size is ca. 41.4 x 31.8 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 16.5 x 12.9 inch. The image size is ca. 16.3 x 12.5 inch.

Part Number: 53246

Location: E41-05

Description: Published by Verlag E. G. May Sohne, Frankfurt in 1881. With the number 1306 in the lower margin. The publisher Eduard Gustav May (later May & Wirsing from 1850-1863 and E. G. May Söhne from 1878-1914) was active from 1845 to 1914, publishing mostly popular prints.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Fridolin Leiber' after own design. Fridolin Leiber (1853-1912) was a German painter, draughtsman and lithographer. In 1881 he got associated with E.G. May Sohne as a designer and lithographer.