![[Baby giraffe born at Antwerp Zoo in 1871, with its parents.]](jpegs/41196.jpg)
[Baby giraffe born at Antwerp Zoo in 1871, with its parents.]Girafes 1. Male et 2. Femelle 3. Girafe Femelle née le 10 Juin 1871 au local de la Société [...]
Lith. Joseph Ratinckx, Longue rue Neuve, 13 Anvers.
[c.1872.]
Rare chromolithograph, printed area 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
Lithograph commemorating the first time that a baby giraffe was born at the zoo in Antwerp, Belgium. Only the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna (1858) and London Zoo (1864) had previously bred giraffes in Europe.
See Gie Robeyns, 'Special wishes for the members of Antwerp Zoo; 65 years of history in pictures (1850-1914)', 2011.
[Ref: 41196] £180.00
[c.1872.]
Rare chromolithograph, printed area 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
Lithograph commemorating the first time that a baby giraffe was born at the zoo in Antwerp, Belgium. Only the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna (1858) and London Zoo (1864) had previously bred giraffes in Europe.
See Gie Robeyns, 'Special wishes for the members of Antwerp Zoo; 65 years of history in pictures (1850-1914)', 2011.
[Ref: 41196] £180.00