Antique Print-NIGHTJAR-MONOCHROME-Brehm-1890

Price: € 29,50

Subject: Plate: 'Riesenschwalm'. (Nightjar species.)

Condition: Excellent given its age. General age-related toning and occasional light stains from handling. Please study image carefully.

Medium: Lithographs on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 16.9 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 12.8 x 20.4 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5 x 8 inch.

Part Number: 18508

Location: C107-36

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. Litho by or after W. Kuhnert.