antieke lithografie, lithograph adelaar 'Steinadler'. (Golden Eagle.) brehm, 1895 brv

Subject:  adelaar 'Steinadler'. (Golden Eagle.)

Condition: Very good. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. 

Medium: Colour lithographs on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 25.1 x 16.9 cm. The image size is ca. 20 x 13.1 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.8 x 6.7 inch. The image size is ca. 7.9 x 5.3 inch.

Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'Brehms Tierleben' (English title: Brehm's Life of Animals); a reference book, first published in the 1864, which made its author, Alfred Edmund Brehm, known around the world. This plate is from a 1892 or 1900 edition.

Artists and Engravers: The author Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884), was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book titled 'Brehms Tierleben', his name became a synonym for popular zoological literature. Litho by or after W. Kuhnert.