| Antique Print Fish Fishing Art - Natural History Print A beautiful illustration from a British Victorian natural history book. The quality of the illustrations is superb, some of the best of the period. A lovely engraving showing a group of sticklebacks - Sea-stickleback (top), Nine-spined stickleback (middle) and Three-spined stickleback (bottom). 'Sticklebacks are extremely pugnacious, and at the same time highly voracious fishes, the males engaging in fierce conflicts with one another, while both sexes consume a vast quantity of the fry of other fish, and are, therefore, most objectionable denizens of preserved waters. It is not, indeed that a single stickleback can do a very great deal of harm, but the mischief results from the enormous numbers of these little marauders.' (1894) |
