Fish Antique Print. Paradise Fish and Telescope-Fish Antique Print circa 1894  E-mail this product to a friend

Fish - Paradise-Fish and Telescope-Fish. Antique Print c1894

Original (hand-coloured) wood engraving for a zoological encyclopedia Illustrirtes Tierleben by Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) first published in Leipzig between 1864 and 1869, republished in Austria circa 1896 as Brehm’s Tierleben (Life of Animals), and published in London circa 1894 by Frederick Warne and Company of London & New York for the English edition “The Royal Natural History” by Richard Lydekker B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., Etc. (sic.).

This lovely engraving has a lined background, that is not as prominent as in this scanned image.

This engraving is mounted in 50mm wide archival board and covered with cellophane for protection. The actual image measures 95 x.145mm (3 3/4" x 5 3/4").