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.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 180mm by 245mm. 'Horlogerie, Profil de la Machine de Sulli pour fendre les Roues' (Profile of Teeth Cutting Machine by M. Sully)From a smaller size edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie (1751-80).

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.

1808. Copper-line engraving. 210mm by 125mm (sheet). Published by George Kearsley in George Shaw's 'Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution', 1809. Image printed close to left hand edge of sheet.

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.

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.

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

1800. Copper-line engraving. 240mm by 170mm (platemark). A pair of engravings depicting the making of cider. From a smaller size edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie (1751-80). Innocente Alessandri and Pietro Scattaglia were Italian engravers and publishers who worked together in Venice. Faint waterstain to the left hand margin.

1780. Copper-line engraving. 105mm by 145mm (platemark) 245mm by 185mm (sheet). George I (1660-1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698. Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) who was a French engraver and publisher.

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.

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