AntiquePrint-BEE-HONEY-INSECT-WILLOW FLOWER-Brehm-1892

Subject: Plate: 'Frulingsbild aus dem Insektenleben (Spring image of the Insectlife).' This plates shows the life of the insects in Springtime, a spring performance in the insect life, with bees and flies on the flowers of a willow.

Condition: Very good. Some small stains in margin and in top of print. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Original colour chromo-lithographs on a vellin paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 13 x 20.4 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.8 x 9.9 inch. The image size is ca. 5.2 x 8.5 inch.

Part Number: 11935

Location: C109-14

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.