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.

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. 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.

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.

1800. Copper-line engraving. 105mm by 160mm (platemark). A couple of light marks outside the platemark.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 240mm by 340mm (platemark). From a smaller size edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie (1751-1780). Depicts examples of cabinet-making and marquetery. Central vertical fold as issued.

1772. Copper-line engraving. 230mm by 355mm (platemark). From D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, 'Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers', Paris 1762-1773. An important work illustrating the science and craftsmanship of the 18th century just before the Industrial revolution. Very faint small printer's crease.

1760. Copper-line engraving. 110mm by 85mm (platemark). Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, PC (1724 - 1807), known as The Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a British soldier and politician. After serving at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite Rising, Townshend took command of the British forces for the closing stages of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War. He went on to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or Viceroy where he introduced measures aimed at increasing the size of Irish regiments, reducing corruption in Ireland and improving the Irish economy. In cooperation with Prime Minister North in London he imposed much greater British control over Ireland. In 1779 Richard Edwards, Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, began work on Fort Townshend, a fortification in Newfoundland and Labrador, naming it after Lord Townshend.Very thin margins.

1800. Copper-line engraving. 130mm by 215mm (sheet). From George Shaw's 'General Zoology or Systematic Natural History'.

1781. Copper-line engraving. 180mm by 110mm (platemark). John Fothergill FRS (1712 - 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. He is credited with first identifying and naming trigeminal neuralgia in his work Of a painful affection of the face in 1765. John Fothergill made a study of conchology and botany. At Upton, near Stratford, he had an extensive botanical garden where he grew many rare plants obtained from various parts of the world (now West Ham Park). In the garden, with its glasshouses, John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), a Quaker physician and a protege of his, exclaimed that "the sphere seemed transposed, as the Arctic Circle joined with the equator". Lettsom published a catalogue of the plants of Fothergill's garden Hortus Uptonensis, or a catalogue of the plants in the Dr. Fothergill's garden at Upton, at the time of his decease anno 1780.Fothergilla is named in his honour.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.He was the patron of Sydney… Read More

1740. Copper-line engraving. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Vitellius, was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was proclaimed emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. From "Delle Antiche Statue Greche e Romane..., "a collection of ancient Greek and Roman statues found in Venice by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder (1680-1757). As the librarian of San Marco, Zanetti was a collector, connoisseur, and artist. He published these engravings by Faldoni after his drawings, as well as those of his cousin. Faldoni is considered one of the best reproductive engravers working in Venice during the eighteenth century.Framed in fine quality black frame with cream mount with gilt lines. Original descriptive text in Latin on the reverse.