Antique Prints-COAL FOREST-COAL FORMATION-Meyers-1900

Subject: Plate: Steinkohlenformation III. (Coal formation III). This plate shows a Coal forest.

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

Medium: Original chromolithograph.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 24.5 x 15.7 cm. The image size is ca. 21.6 x 12.9 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.6 x 6.2 inch. The image size is ca. 8.5 x 5.1 inch.

Part Number: 13294

Location: (PCOMAN) C26-27

Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from a famous German encyclopedia: 'Meyers grosses Konversations-Lexikon.' ca. 1900 edition, published in Leipzig and Vienna. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

Artists and Engravers: The original founder and publisher who initiated this famous enxyclopedia was Joseph Meyer (1796-1856, Hildburghausen, Germany).