Search The Public Domain Review

    The Public Domain Review
    Browsing: Shop / Fine Art Prints / Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLV

      Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLV

      Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours), 1754

      Image Size
      Paper Type
      Premium fine art paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, archival
      Frame Type
      Overview
      • Archival inks (Giclée process) on premium fine art paper (100% cotton, acid-free).
      • 1" border
      • Image Size: 12" x 8.3" – Total Size: 14" x 10.3"
      Loading Prices…

      Browse more Fine Art Prints

      Engraving Book Illustration Animals East Indies Fish Sea The sea Tropical. Fantasy 18th century

      Stunning prints in excellent quality. I could not be happier with the results. I will continue to fill my home with art from PDR’s prints shop.

      Thilde Wolf
      Lund, Sweden

      I ordered a bunch of framed prints as gifts, and one for myself. I love them, I want more, wish my whole house was salon-style pictures from PDR.

      Tom Hart
      Providence, RI, United States

      Beautiful reproductions, incredible imagination and imaginative curation. Great care taken with packaging and presentation.

      Simon
      London, United Kingdom

      Love the quality of the print and the frame.

      Rich M
      Mt Airy, MD, United States

      I own several PDR prints and have also given them as gifts. The attention to detail never disappoints! This is true from the curation to the artifact that you receive in the mail. Highly recommended.

      Schmudde
      Turin, Italy

      Just gorgeous prints - I’ve ordered around four over the years and they’re honestly faultless. Huge recommendation.

      David Houston
      London, United Kingdom

      I’m addicted to these prints. The quality is exceptional and if you’re a fan of the PDR, then these are a no-brainer. I’ve got a small collection now. They also make for excellent, original gifts.

      George Webster
      London, United Kingdom

      I got a framed Munch print as a Christmas gift for my brother. The print was beautiful with super clear resolution and the framing was immaculate.

      Mark W
      Baltimore, MD, United States

      Prints arrived relatively quickly and were of very high quality.

      Sohraub
      Toronto, Canada

      The PDR print shop is an excellent resource for unusual and unique prints from every era and style. They are beautifully executed, and arrive quickly. My highest recommendation!

      Todd Pearson
      San Francisco, CA, United States

      Originally published in 1719, with a second edition in 1754, Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes can lay claim to being the earliest known publication in colour on fish, in this case, celebrating those hailing from the waters of the East Indies. This wonderful book is the creation of Louis Renard, a publisher, bookseller and spy for the British Crown. All in all, across the two volumes, the book contains 100 plates bearing 460 hand-coloured engravings, a total of 415 fishes, 41 crustaceans, two stick insects, a dugong and, in a final foldout, a solitary mermaid. The engravings were supposedly based on drawings from life by the artist Samuel Fallours (active 1703 -1720). Produced in two volumes, the images in the first part tend to be fairly realistic, but many in the second stray somewhat into the realms of fantasy, despite Renard's ardent claims of authenticity.

      Buying a gift and not sure what your recipient would like? Let them choose with our gift card.

      Interested in wholesale? Contact shop@publicdomainreview.org for more info.

      Related Products