Antique Print-CRAB-CRABS-Brehm-1890

Price: € 52,50

Subject: Plate: ''Krabben.'' (Crabs.)

Condition: Very good. General age related toning and occasional light staining in margin from handling as visible on image.

Medium: Colour lithograph on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 25.1 x 17 cm. The image size is ca. 21.1 x 14 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.9 x 6.7 inch. The image size is ca. 8.3 x 5.5 inch.

Part Number: 18541

Location: C109-29

Description: This attractive original antique print / plate originates from: 'Brehms Tierleben' (English title: Brehm's Life of Animals), a reference book, first published in the 1864, which gained worldwide fame for its author, Alfred Edmund Brehm. 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. Litho by or after W. Kuhnert.