Antique Print-STURGEON-FISH-Brehm-1890

Price: € 29,50

Subject: Plate: 'Store.' (Sturgeon.)

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

Medium: Wood engraving on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 25 x 17.2 cm. The image size is ca. 20.2 x 14.3 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.8 x 6.8 inch. The image size is ca. 8 x 5.6 inch.

Part Number: 18550

Location: C109-05

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.