Search Results: Authors starting with E from Sebra Prints

1833. Mezzotint. 570mm by 445mm (frame). Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. He went on to be Governor-general of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War. Framed in an antique black and gilt frame with old glass. Remounted at a later stage. Some overall toning, one faint mark in background.

1799. Stipple engraving. 160mm by 110mm (platemark). Mungo Park (1771-1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River. From the 'European Magazine'.A few small spots within the platemark.

1829. Wood-engraving with original hand-colouring. 425mm by 335mm (sheet). 'The Discovery, Convict Ship (Lying at Deptford), The Vessell, which accompanied Capt. Cook, on his last voyage.' Cooke was an English landscape and marine painter. In 1829 he produced a series of etchings on copper of ships, boats, yachts and barges of the early 1800s.

1807. Copper-line engraving. 270mm by 210mm (sheet). Early 19th century engraving from Ree's Cyclopaedia. Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768-1819), was a natural history illustrator. He produced watercolours for engraving for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, New Botanic Garden 1805-7, New Flora Britannica 1812, and The Botanical Register 1815-19. He also provided drawings for encyclopaedias such as Pantologia and Rees's Cyclopaedia.

1807. Copper-line engraving. 270mm by 210mm (sheet). Early 19th century engraving from Ree's Cyclopaedia. Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768-1819), was a natural history illustrator. He produced watercolours for engraving for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, New Botanic Garden 1805-7, New Flora Britannica 1812, and The Botanical Register 1815-19. He also provided drawings for encyclopaedias such as Pantologia and Rees's Cyclopaedia.

1808. Stipple engraving. 165mm by 110mm (platemark). Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool PC (1729 - 1808), known as Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. Portrait engraving from 'The European Magazine'.Faint indentation in image. Faint foxing outside platemark.

1910. Hentschel-Colourtype. 400mm by 265mm (sheet). Anti-Vivisection'. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge (1854-1936) was an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

1909. Chromolithograph. 380mm by 260mm (sheet). Vanity Fair medical portrait of HA Barker, who was recognized for his 'admirable methods of dealing with injured and deformed joints'. Accompanied by original descriptive text.

1910. Chromolithograph. Vanity Fair medical portrait of Sir John Bland-Sutton FRCS (1855-1936). He was a surgeon at Middlesex Hospital, London, and devoted himself especially to pelvic operations upon women. In 1886 he became assistant surgeon to the hospital for women. At the Royal College of Surgeons he won the Jacksonian prize in 1892 with his essay on diseases of the ovaries and the uterine appendages, their pathology, diagnosis and treatment. Short tear at the bottom of the sheet.

1835. Steel engraving. 170mm by 245mm (platemark). From 'Views in India, China, and the Shores of the Red Sea; Drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, &c. From Original Sketches by Commander Robert Elliott, R.N.' Some foxing, mainly outside the image area.

1841. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 100mm by 165mm (sheet). From G. R. Waterhouse's Natural History of Marsupialia, or Pouched Animals, a volume in Sir William Jardine's "Naturalist's Library," published by Lizars, Edinburgh, 1841.

1830. Aquatint with hand-colouring. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). An Italian composite of three of Petit's engravings from Peron and Freycinet's account of Baudin's voyage in Voyage de couvertes aux Terres Australis: atlas. From Giulio Ferrario's "Il costume antico e moderno, o, storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni", vol. VIII (Asia), edited by Vincenzo Batelli, Florence.A couple of light waterstains.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 195mm by 140mm. Albrecht von Haller (1708 - 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology.

1841. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 100mm by 165mm (sheet). From G. R. Waterhouse's Natural History of Marsupialia, or Pouched Animals, a volume in Sir William Jardine's "Naturalist's Library," published by Lizars, Edinburgh, 1841.

1740. Copper-line engraving. 100mm by 95mm (platemark). Cowper, Lord Chancellor'. William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper PC KC FRS (1665-1723) was an English politician who became the first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Ravenet studied engraving and etching in Paris, under Jacques Philippe Le Bas. In 1743, he moved to London to assist William Hogarth in the engraving of his Marriage a la Mode paintings. Ravenet remained in London for the rest of his life. The majority of his work was produced for large-scale publishers including Robert Sayer, John and Paul Knapton, and, especially, John Boydell. He also engraved the portraits of such eminent figures as George II, Alexander Pope and David Hume. Ravenet played a significant part in the London art institutions that were developing at the time. He sat on the committee of the Society of Artists in 1767 and in 1770, he joined the Royal Academy as one of only six associate engravers. One very small spot.

1753. Copper-line engraving. 200mm by 285mm (platemark). Plantes - Gewassen. 12.3.4.5.6.7 de la Nle. Hollande, 8 de Timor, 9,10 de la N.le Guinee' Depicts Australian botanical species published previously in William Dampier's 'A voyage to New Holland', published in 1703, which contained the first published images of Australian flora. From the Dutch edition of Abbe Prevost's 'Histoire generale des voyages...,' published in The Hague by P. de Hondt, 1747-1780.Two vertical folds as issued.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 235mm by 180mm (platemark). From a smaller size edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie (1751-1780). Depicts examples of cabinet-making and marquetery. Sequence of examples of workmanship.Trimmed just within platemark on left hand side. Some very light printer's creases.

1793. Stipple engraving. 170mm by 105mm (sheet). Thomas Pennant (1726-1798)was a Welsh naturalist and topographer. It is argued that Pennant Hills, NSW is named after Thomas Pennant (In Search of the Pennant Hills (2007), by Trevor Patrick, James Symes & Andrew Tinkand) and that he contributed to the Australian ornithology of Cook's First Voyage (The contribution of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), Welsh naturalist, to the Australian ornithology of Cook's first voyage (1768-1771) by David G. Medway). From the 'European Magazine'.Trimmed within the platemark and false-mounted.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 245mm by 355mm (platemark). 'Horlogerie, Ressorts de Montre' From a smaller size edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie (1751-80).Central vertical fold as issued.

1790. Copper-line engraving. 210mm by 120mm (sheet). William Black was a physician and author. Trimmed within platemark on left and right hand sides.