Blue Shark antique print. Chromolithograph by P.J. Smit c1894.

by Rev. Pierre-Jacques Smit

Antique print of Blue Shark and prey c1894.

Fine lithograph of a Blue Shark in pursuit of pretty little fish. 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 16.5 x 26 cm (6.5 x 10 1/8 inches). Image measures 13.5 x.14 cm (7.7/8 x 5.1/2 inches).