$30.00 CAD
(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.
12.5 X 21.25 cm 4-7/8” X 8-3/8“
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.