Antique Print-CHAMELEON-CAMOUFLAGE-COVER-Brehm-1892

Subject: Plate: 'Chamaleon (Chameleon).' This plate shows three chameleons and their natural camouflage.

Condition: Very good. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Original colour chromo-lithographs on a vellin paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 13.5 x 20.4 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.8 x 5.4 inch. The image size is ca. 9.9 x 8 inch.

Part Number: 11915

Location: C108-32

Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'Brehms Tierleben' (English title: Brehm's Life of Animals) is a reference book, first published in the 1864, which made its author, Alfred Edmund Brehm, known around the world. This plate is from a 1892 or 1900 edition.

Artists and Engravers: The author Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884), was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book titled 'Brehms Tierleben', his name became a synonym for popular zoological literature.