Antique Print-PINE GROSBEAK-CROSSBILL-FINCH-Brehm-1890

Price: € 34,50

Subject: Plate: 'Hakengimpel und Kreuzschnabel'. (Pine grosbeak and Crossbills.)

Condition: Excellent. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image.

Medium: Colour lithographs on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 13.5 x 21 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.3 x 8.3 inch.

Part Number: 18524

Location: C107-21

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.