Flat Fish antique print. Chromolithograph by PJ Smit c1894.

by Rev. Pierre-Jacques Smit

Antique Print of Flat Fish lying on the sand after being caught.

Chromolithograph by The Reverend Pierre-Jacques Smit (1863-1960), printed in colour by Frederick Warne and Company of London & New York, for The Royal Natural History, edited by Richard Lydekker B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., Etc. (sic.)

The Royal Natural History was the English publication of Brehm's Tierleben (Illustrated Life of Animals), first published in Leipzig between 1864 and 1869, and translated for English publication in 1894.

Page is 26 x 16.5 cm (10.1/8 x 6.1/2 inches). Image measures 20 x 13.5 cm (7.7/8 x 5.1/4 inches).