Antique Print-REPTILES-ANACONDA-SNAKE-Brehm-1892

Price: € 47,50

Subject: Plate: 'Anakondaschlange (Anaconda).' This plate shows an Anaconda, which is going to attack a bird.

Condition: Very good. Some stains in margin, not affecting image. A crease in the right margin from binding. 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. 17.3 x 25.1 cm. The image size is ca. 12.8 x 19.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.8 x 9.9 inch. The image size is ca. 5 x 7.7 inch.

Part Number: 11914

Location: C108-33

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 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. Engraved by X.J. v. K. Jahrmargt after G. Mutzel.