Antique Original Sea Shell Print Hand Colored Engraving by Wilhelm C.1820

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Original antique print of Sea Shells hand-colored engraving circa 1820 presented matted and framed. Please view our other Sea Shell … more Original antique print of Sea Shells hand-colored engraving circa 1820 presented matted and framed. Please view our other Sea Shell prints from this work framed alike so they can be displayed in groupings. Overall framed size 9 x 11".

This originally hand-colored engraving is from Gottlied Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte or Natural History. The work was published in Augsburg by Engelbrecht between 1810 and 1821. The engravings were completed by Paul Martin Wilhelm, brother of the author, and others. Wilhelm's work was a fine example of the encyclopaedic science of the period. The work's main goal was education. less