Wonderful Sea Barnacles antique print. Lizars engraving c1845.

$185.00

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

Original (hand-coloured) copperplate engraving by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) after a drawing by Scottish naturalist Captain Thomas Brown (1785-1862), for Brown’s “Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, drawn and coloured from nature”, published in London and Edinburgh circa 1845.

Page size is 300 x 235mm (approximately 12 x 9.25 inches), with intaglio impression almost at the edge of the paper.