@1819 French Prêtre fish print with 3 species of mullet

1. Le Mulle rouget…Page 389
2. Le Mulle surmulet …394
3. Le Mulle auriflamme…396

(Volume III, Print #20 Page 394)

(Drawn by Prêtre, engraved by Sophie Cornu)

Taken from 'Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, par M. le Comte de Lacepède Tome Troisième Paris 1819'

Hand-coloured print.

Lovely colours.

Light browning top and right edge, very light yellowing elsewhere.

21.25 x 12.5 cm // 8-3/8“ x 4-7/8” 

Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (20 December 1768 – 29 April 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. Several species of animal were named after him.