Fine Rare Prints

Living Lights Luminous Life

Luminous Fish
Eustomias obscurus
SOLD - order #451

Information

A really fascinating and unusual illustration from a rare work about luminous life. Charles Holder said “the subject of phosphorescence is one which affords the widest field for investigators” and “I have read by the light of a luminous beetle”!

Date

1887. This is an authentic antique, not a reproduction.

Source

Living Lights, A Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables by Charles Holder Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences. Published in London

Print method

Steel plate engraving

Condition

Good condition. The images are clean and bright, there is a touch of foxing in the margins of a few of these prints - this should not be a concern as it can be covered by the matt during framing.

Size

Approximately 7¾” by 5¼” (19 cm by 13 cm)

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