Description: AZURINE CXCVIIOriginal Plate from History of The Fishes of The British Islands by Jonathan Couch F.L.S. Published by Groombridge & Sons, 5 Paternoster Row, London 1862Condition: Very Good, Colour Plates some with additional hand colour, blank to versoPlate size: 10" x 6" (250mm x 160mm) Couch’s illustrations - ‘drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’ - were engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, and produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers. This work is regarded today as one of the fundamental contributions to British ichthyology. Background:Jonathan Couch (1789-1870) a country doctor from Polperro, a small fishing village in Cornwall England. A great deal of his varied work was published during his lifetime, his major work being Fishes of the British Islands, published in four volumes between 1862 and 1865. The great work contained 256 water colours and drawings and is of considerable artistic merit as well as being a major contribution to scientific knowledge. A GUARANTEED GENUINE ORIGINAL PRINT OVER 150 YEARS OLDFROM RARE MAPS AND PRINTS
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Artist: Alexander Francis Lydon
Originality: Original
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Date of Creation: c1862
Item Length: N/A
Region of Origin: London
Colour: Multi-Colour
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Year of Production: c1862
Width (Inches): 10
Item Height: N/A
Self-Representing Artist?: No
Style: Art from Nature
Features: Engraved
Item Width: N/A
Culture: english
Antique/ Modern: Antique
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
Material: Lithograph, Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Fishing
Print Surface: Paper
Signed?: Unsigned
Type: Print
Original/ Repro: Original
Etching/ Engraving Type: chromolithograph
Height (Inches): 6
Theme: Natural History
Production Technique: Chromolithograph
