Antique Prints-WATER MIRAGE-CARAVAN-DESSERT-Meyers-1900

Original colour chromolithographs. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 24.5 x 16 cm. The image size is ca. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 9.6 x 6.3 inch. The image size is ca. 8.1 x 5.7 inch.

Plate: Luftspiegelungsgewasser in der Wuste. (Mirage of water in the dessert). This plate shows a caravan in the dessert and a mirage of water, a mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from a famous German encyclopedia: ‘Meyers grosses Konversations-Lexikon.’ ca. 1900 edition, published in Leipzig and Vienna. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia.Artists and Engravers: The original founder and publisher who initiated this famous enxyclopedia was Joseph Meyer (1796-1856, Hildburghausen, Germany).

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

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINTS-WATER MIRAGE-CARAVAN-DESSERT-MEYERS

(PCOMAN) C28-36