
Sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio
Sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.
Credit
Mary Evans
Dimensions
3692 x 6106 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
12 x 20 inches / 31 x 52 cm