Marine Life
€ 720
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, some wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Set of four original antique fish prints. Beluga sturgeon, Huso huso, and fishing methods with hook and line. Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua 88, and scenes on board a factory ship, men and women gutting and salting fish on deck 90,91, and dropping the fish into the hold 89. Pollock, Pollachius virens, and fish wives washing fish in tubs and arranging them on palettes. Pollack, Pollachius pollachius 97, and workers preparing and drying fish in a shed, Europe.
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.
