1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings (Dover Pictorial Archive)
By Matthäus Merian (the Younger).
Description
A painter whose father was an engraver and publisher of the same name, Matthäus Merian (1621–1687) published this remarkable group of unusual and highly imaginative animal illustrations. This copyright-free collection includes a large and fascinating selection of engravings that illustrate scientific specimens and legendary creatures ― all meticulously reproduced from an extremely rare eighteenth-century edition.Carefully arranged into six major divisions (quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks and crustaceans, fish, birds, and insects), approximately 1,300 copyright-free images include re...
ISBN(s)
0486402371, 9780486402376