Bivalve Shells hand-coloured antique engraving by Lizars c1845.

by Brown, Captain Thomas

Antique print of Bivalves engraved by W.H. Lizars c1845 for Captain Brown.

Original (hand-coloured) copperplate engraving by eminent Scottish engraver William Home Lizars (1788-1859) after a drawing by Scottish naturalist Captain Thomas Brown F.L.S. (1785-1862), for Brown’s “Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, drawn and coloured from nature”, published in London and Edinburgh circa 1845.

Page size is approximately 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 inches).