Search Results: Authors starting with A from Sebra Prints

1923. Pochoir. 320mm by 240mm (sheet). French pochoir print from 'La Mode en 1923 par Les Maitres Tailleurs de Paris'. Pochoir was a method of hand-colouring through stencils, popular in the Art Deco period.

1823. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 250mm by 150mm (sheet). From Robert Sweet's 'The British Flower Garden'. Robert Sweet (1783-1835) was an English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist. He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on plants cultivatd in British gardens and hothouses. The fine plates were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith, a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis (1818), Geraniaceae (five volumes) (1820-30), Cistineae, Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (1826-27), Flora Australasica (1827-28) and British Botany (with H. Weddell) (1831).

1837. Copper-line engraving. 220mm by 135mm (platemark). Italian engraving from 'Enciclopedia Italiana Illustrata'. Faint handling creases below image and title area, exaggerated in the scan.

1870. Chromolithograph. 320mm by 250mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris.

1836. Lithograph. 340mm by 250mm (sheet). On a personal comparison with Mr. Pattison, the governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Spring Rice, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is sadly deficient ; while of Mr. Pattison there is a surplus of the † too too solid flesh. Of the condition of the Bank itself, it would he obviously improper to say anything ; but that the Exchequer was in a state of deficiency, all through the Chancellorship of Mr. Spring Rice, is notorious.' Ref : 'An illustrative key to the Political sketches of H.B.,from no. 1 to no. 600." Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS (1790-1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.John Doyle (1797- 1868), known by the pen name H. B., was an Irish political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer.'HB Sketches No 445'. Published by Thomas MacLean.With original false mount in dark buff. A couple of light foxing spots. With publishers blind stamp lower left."

1820. Copper-line engraving. (sheet). Five portraits on one sheet - 'A Man of the Sandwich Islands', 'A Woman of the Sandwich Islands', 'A Man of Mangea, Omai or Omia a Native of Ulietea' and 'Capt James Cook FRS Killed on the Island of Owhyhee 14th Feb 1779'. 'Engraved for Jackson's Edition of Payne's New System of Universal Geography'. Trimmed within plate mark on left hand side. One foxing spot top left outside the platemark.

1775. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 290mm by 220mm (sheet). German copper-line engraving from the German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber's (1739-1810) 'Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' ['Mammals Illustrated after Nature with Descriptions'] published from 1774 onwards. Wove paper.

1870. Chromolithograph. 250mm by 320mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris.

1870. Chromolithograph. 250mm by 320mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris. Remains of hinges on the reverse at the top.

1870. Chromolithograph. 250mm by 320mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris.

1870. Chromolithograph. 250mm by 320mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris.

1870. Chromolithograph. 250mm by 320mm (sheet). From 'Constructions Modernes & Economiques', a French folio of architectural designs, published by Monrocq in Paris.

1839. Tinted lithograph. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone, 1839.

1839. Tinted lithograph. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone, 1839.

1839. Lithograph with later hand-colouring. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). Depicts Major Mitchell sketching the entrance of the caves in Wellington Valley, New South Wales. From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone, 1839.Mark lower right, short break in paper at the top right of sheet.

1795. Copper-line engraving. 70mmm by 60mm (platemark) 225mm by 120mm (sheet). Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was an English poet. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, his first volume of verse, Poetical Blossoms, was published in 1633 when he was fifteen and included poems written from the age of ten. As a Royalist during the English civil wars he was deprived of his Cambridge fellowship in 1643. He joined King Charles I at Oxford before following Queen Henrietta Maria to France as her secretary. On the Restoration she granted him land. He studied medicine and became an MD in 1657, thereafter living in retirement, studying botany and writing essays. Faint mark within platemark of portrait.

1754. Copper-line engraving. 205mm by 120mm (sheet). 'Mr. Jacob Powell of Stebbing in Essex. Who died Octr. 6th 1754 Aged 37 Years, Weiged near 40 Stone'. 'Printed for J Hinton at the King's Arms in Newgate Street'.'Engraved for the Universal Magazine'.

1750. Copper-line engraving. 125mm by 100mm (platemark). The Hon.ble John Byng Esq. Admiral of the Blue, ' Admiral John Byng (1704 - 1757) was appointed Commodore-Governor of the British colony of Newfoundland in 1742. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1745, and to Vice-Admiral in 1747.He is best known for the loss of Minorca in 1756 at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. His ships badly needed repair and he was relieved of his command before he could see to his ships or secure the extra forces he required. He was court-martialled and found guilty of failing to "do his utmost" to prevent Minorca falling to the French following the Battle of Minorca (1756). He was sentenced to death and shot by firing squad on 14 March 1757. Slight cockling to the sheet.

1874. Steel-engraving. 120mm by 175mm (image) 200mm by 270mm (sheet). The station is believed to be Bontharambo at Wangaratta, Victoria. From 'Australia' by Edwin Carton Booth. CONDITION : A couple of foxing marks in outer margins. Some foxing evident on the reverse at the top of the sheet.

1875. Steel-engraving. 125mm by 175mm (image) 200mm by 270mm (sheet). From 'Australia' by Edwin Carton Booth. Prout was an English artist who emigrated to Sydney in 1840.