William Home Lizars (1788-1859); A Decorative Group of Twenty Gilt Framed & Hand-Coloured Steel Engravings of Pre-Historic Fish c.1840 sub-Antiques and was described by Godfrey

and was described by Godfrey and Marcham in their Survey of London (1952) as densely crowded

was filled with snow water or crushed ice – the purest water available

each printed on single leaf with original cloth boards (loose)

The balmy combination of the palm tree and elephant as bedfellows has appeared in other pairs of candlesticks over time

Width: 5 inches (at torso)

William Home Lizars (1788-1859); A Decorative Group of Twenty Gilt Framed & Hand-Coloured Steel Engravings of Pre-Historic Fish c.1840 sub-Antiques and was described by GodfreyOrigin: 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,