Antique Print-PORCUPINE-RODENTS-Brehm-1890

Price: € 34,50

Subject: Plate: ''Stachelschwein''. (Porcupine.)

Condition: Excellent, given age. Creasing in the lower margin, from binding. General age-related toning and occasional light stains from handling. Please study image carefully.

Medium: Chromolithograph on a wove (vellin) type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 26 x 17.3 cm. The image size is ca. 18.6 x 14 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 10.2 x 6.8 inch. The image size is ca. 7.3 x 5.5 inch.

Part Number: 18442

Location: C106-34

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.