Name: Antique Print-TUNA-SWORDFISH-SUNFISH-EASTERN TALMA-Oken-1833
SKU: PCO-28722
Availability: InStock

Antique Print-TUNA-SWORDFISH-SUNFISH-EASTERN TALMA-Oken-1833

€85.00

‘PLATE 50. SCHMALKOPFE (..).’

– This original antique print shows various fish species including a tuna, pilot fish (Naucrates ductor), swordfish (Xiphias gladius), sunfish, acanthurus, Chelmonops truncatus, the eastern talma or truncate coralfish etc.

In stock

SKU: PCO-28722 Category: Fish / Marine Tag: Animals

Description

Medium: Lithograph with oriinal old hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 23 x 30 cm. (9.06 x 11.81 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing/browning. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

TUNA-SWORDFISH-SUNFISH-EASTERN TALMA | PCO-A193-40

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This old antique print originates from: ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s allgemeiner Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’, published by Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung in Stuttgart, Germany 1833 ? 1841.

Biography artist: Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), was a German transcendental naturalist, philosopher & physician. Born Okenfuss, the son of a farmer, he simplified his name to Oken while at medical school in Freiburg, Bavaria. Oken was a prolific & vocal writer, lecturer and theorist, publishing many philosophical treatises during his life. His masterpiece and lasting legacy to the world is the 13-volume ‘Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’ (Natural History for all Social Ranks), first published between 1833 and 1841. This plate engraved by unknown/to be determined.