1833 Flying Fish, Catfish, H. Schinz (b. 1777) folio, handcoloured lithograph

Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777-1861) (editor)

Karl Joseph Brodtmann (1787-1862) (lithographer) 

Hand coloured Stone lithograph ‘Crayon Manier” from Naturgeschichte und Abildungen der Fisch

[Natural History and Illustrations of Fish] 

Schaffhausen: 1833 

Hand-colored lithographs 

32 x 23.6 cm [c. 13 x 9 inches]

Extremely rare.

Schinz’s work on Fish combine scientific accuracy and a sophisticated aesthetic sense in terms of the arrangements of animals on each page. The plates are lithographed by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, one of the most accomplished Swiss lithographers of the day.