Beetles in a Flood. Entomology and Frog survival. c1896

by Lydekker, Richard

Lithograph antique print. Frog watching flood affected insects.

Original colour-printed lithograph c1896 for Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History - compiled on a translation of the German edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Illustrirtes Tierleben (Illustrated Life of Animals) c1869.

Richard Lydekker, BA, FRS (1849-1915), was an English naturalist, geologist, palaeontologist, author and Fellow of the RoyalSociety who contributed greatly to British knowledge of a wide range of natural history sciences for more than 30 years.
Alfred Brehm's lithographic illustrations were mainly based on the watercolours of German artist, Robert Kretschmer (1812-1872). An eminent German zoologist and well-travelled writer, Brehm was the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg, where he had a wide access to exotic wildlife.

Page size 255 x 170mm (10 x 6.65 inches). Lithograph size 210 x 133mm (8.25 x 5.25 inches).