Antique Print-LYREBIRD-AUSTRALIA-Brehm-1890

Subject: Plate: 'Leierschwanz'. (Lyrebird.)
Condition: Very good. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Wood engraving on a vellin type paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17.2 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.1 x 8.1 inch.
Part Number: 18515
Location: C107-29
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.