Insect Prints

Insect Prints! Browse, shop and buy online Merian & framed pieces: antique lithographs and hand colored engravings. Antique insect illustrations. Published as bookplates during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.  Feel confident when you buy insect prints at Anne Hall Antique Prints.

It was a laborious craft of all those involved in producing old prints like these WONDERFUL hand colored engravings and antique lithographs of Insects: Antique Lithographs, Engravings, Shop Now!  These old prints are available to buy now at Anne Hall Antique Prints.  First one had to travel, find and identify a particular species to illustrate. Second the illustrations had to be meticulously drawn, with the best accuracy. LATER The image would be transferred onto a copper plate and engraved or transferred to a limestone plate and specially lithographed.   Even the paper was hard to acquire.   The history of antique printing methods used to produce these antique flora lithographs and engravings is so fascinating.

Insects Shop Now and buy online: antique lithographs and hand colored engravings of insects published during the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries.