William Home Lizars (1788-1859); A Decorative Group of Twenty Gilt Framed & Hand-Coloured Steel Engravings of Pre-Historic Fish c.1840 sub-Antiques 000 years ago

000 years ago

childlike figures and bold

Most panels bear the same motif of the’ all seeing eye’ burnt on the back and the name Smith

The heart shaped carapace

Circumference (at widest point): 10

William Home Lizars (1788-1859); A Decorative Group of Twenty Gilt Framed & Hand-Coloured Steel Engravings of Pre-Historic Fish c.1840 sub-Antiques 000 years agoOrigin: British Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 In Frames: 7 x 4. 5 The decorative group of twenty gilt framed and hand coloured steel engravings on wove paper, of natural history interest, each showing a named species of pre historic fish, published by William Home Lizars in Edinburgh, and surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century England. Printed on early nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins,