[A polar bear seated on snow and another polar bear walking in background] / Carl Ederer. – Vintage Print
![[A polar bear seated on snow and another polar bear walking in background] / Carl Ederer., [between 1900 and 1930(?)] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/ab1b52ac12ff-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [A polar bear seated on snow and another polar bear walking in background] / Carl Ederer., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[A polar bear seated on snow and another polar bear walking in background] / Carl Ederer.
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The bear seated in the foreground is the detail that sets this sheet apart: it shows a polar bear at rest on snow while a second bear walks behind it, so the composition reads as a quiet pair rather than a single animal study. The print is a chromolithograph, made by layering a separate lithographic stone for each color, a process that let publishers sell affordable, richly colored images for homes, schools and shop walls in the decades around 1900. Polar bears were a popular subject then, as Arctic exploration and zoo exhibitions drew public attention to animals of the far north. The record dates the sheet only approximately, to between 1900 and 1930, so its exact printing date remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1930(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph ; 41 1/2 x 30 7/8 in. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1900-1930. |
| Subjects | Polar bears--1900-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,056 × 5,413 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif08972_Apolarbearseatedonsnowandanoth |
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