Set of 2 Antique Fish Prints - Conger Eel - Pacific Cutlassfish - Sand Eel, 1832
- Reference
- BG-13292-1-14 & BG-13292-1-29
- Date
- 1832
- Region
- Australia & Oceania
- Category
- Engraving
- Sheet size
- 11.0 x 18.0 cm (4.3 x 7.1 in)
- Condition
- Good
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- EUR 260
Set of two original antique fish prints. Conger eel, Conger conger 65 and European eel, Anguilla anguilla 66. Pacific cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus 71, and sand eel, Ammodytes tobianus 72.
These prints originate from 'Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Der Fische erster Theil, Volume 5' by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm. Published 1832. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758 – 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, and the son of Christian Art Wilhelm, an art dealer and publisher in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
These engravings are from the fish section of Wilhelm’s monumental 25 volume work on Natural History. Published from 1777 through to the 1800s, with a total of 1469 exquisite illustrations by the renowned engravers of Augsburg’s famous print empire, once known as the European Image Factory.
Where this sits in the catalogue
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