Original hand-colored engraving with four seals in a landscape of ice, identified in the work as common seal and fetid seal. It is number XLVII in A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, by Oliver Goldsmith, published by A. Fullarton & Co. in London and Edinburgh.
Original hand-colored engraving with four seals in a landscape of ice, identified in the work as common seal and fetid seal. It is number XLVII in A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, by Oliver Goldsmith, published by A. Fullarton & Co. in London and Edinburgh.
Medium: Copper engraving, hand-colored.
Date: 1860.
Source: Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature; A. Fullarton & Co., London and Edinburgh, no. XLVII.
Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.8 in (16.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Fair. Toning of the paper, scattered foxing and the upper edge torn from removal from the binding.