Antique Print-KIWI-NEW ZEALAND-Brehm-1890

Subject: Plate: 'Schnepfenstrauss'. (Kiwi.)

Condition: Very good. General age related toning and occasional light soiling as visible on the scan. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Wood engraving on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 16.9 x 24.9 cm. The image size is ca. 12.6 x 19.6 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.8 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5 x 8 inch.

Part Number: 18496

Location: C108-03

Description: This attractive original old 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.