Captain Brown Bivalve Mollusc Shells. Lizars engraving c1845.

by Brown, Captain Thomas

Antique Print of Shells engraved by A.T. Aikman c1845 for Captain Brown.

Original (hand-coloured) copperplate engraving by A.T. Aikman after a drawing by Scottish naturalist Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. (1785-1862), for Brown’s “Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, drawn and coloured from nature”, published in London and Edinburgh circa 1845.

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