Antique Print-GLASS SPONGE-HEXACTINELLID-Brockhaus-1894

Original colour chromolithographs. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 16 x 25 cm. The image size is ca. 13 x 22 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 6.3 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.1 x 8.7 inch.

Plate: ‘Glasschwamme.’ (Hexactinellid sponges.) This plate shows glass sponges. This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from a famous German encyclopedia: ‘Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 14. Auf.’, 1894 edition, published in Leipzig. Brockhaus was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions from 1808 on. In 1984 it merged with Meyers encyclopedia.Artists and Engravers: The original founder and publisher who initiated this famous enxyclopedia was Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772-1823), a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

Condition: Fine. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-GLASS SPONGE-HEXACTINELLID-BROCKHAUS

(PCOMAN) C60-37