Antique Prints-FISH-STERLET-RAY-SHARK-Meyers-1900

Subject: Plate: Fische I. (Fish I). This plate shows several kind of fish, (marbled electric ray, sterlet, hammerhead, blue shark).
Condition: Fine. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image.
Medium: Original colour chromolithographs.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 16 x 24.5 cm. The image size is ca. 13 x 22 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.3 x 9.6 inch. The image size is ca. 5.1 x 8.7 inch.
Part Number: 13272
Location: (PCOMAN) C28-27
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).