Antique Print-SWORDFISH-BROADBILL-FISH-Brehm-1890

Price: € 44,50

Subject: Plate: 'Schwertfisch.' (Swordfish, broadbill.)

Condition: Very good. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Colour lithograph on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17.3 x 25.2 cm. The image size is ca. 12.7 x 19.8 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.1 x 8.7 inch.

Part Number: 18556

Location: C108-45

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.