Captn. Brown Bivalve Mollusc Shells. Lizars engraving c1845.

$145.00

Antique Print of Shells engraved by W.H. Lizars c1845 for Captain Brown.

Original (hand-coloured) copperplate engraving by William Home Lizars after a drawing by Scottish naturalist Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. (1785-1862), for Brown’s “Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, drawn and coloured from nature”, published in London and Edinburgh circa 1845.

Page size is 28 x 23 cm (approximately 11 x 9 inches).