Search Results: Authors starting with N from Sebra Prints

1770. Copper-line engraving. 240mm by 205mm (platemark). Nardini (1722-1793) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was music director at the ducal court in Florence from 1770, and a famous teacher (Thomas Linley was among his pupils). He wrote many violin sonatas and several concertos, duets etc in a pre-Classical style. Small tear at top of sheet coming into platemark 5mm. Barely noticeable when mounted.

1870. Tinted lithograph. 235mm by 140mm (9. From Joseph Nash's 'Mansions of England in the Olden Time', a detailed and accurate record of the architecture and interiors of English mansions of the Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

1880. Wood-engraving. 395mm by 270mm (sheet). French engraving from 'L'Univers Illustre'. Images titled as follows : 1. Campement pur la nuit 2 Un bonnet de nuit original 3 Passage d'une riviere, pres de Windora 4 Un reservoir d'eau 5 Tombeau pres d'un buisson sale 6 Secours a un voyageur mourant de soif pres d'une source tarieUnrelated text on the reverse.

1818. Copper line engraving. 210mm by 130mm (sheet). Published in the series titled 'The Beauties of England and Wales'. Depicts Sir John Soane's (1753-1837) Rotunda.

1875. Stereoview - albumen photograph. 88mm by 177mm (card). Charles Nettleton was a commercial photographer based in Victoria, Australia. Paper label on the reverse. CONDITION : Faint foxing in the sky of each photograph.

1880. Tinted lithograph. 270mm by 205mm (sheet). Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings (1831-1897) was a pastoralist and politician. In 1875 he was a New South Wales commissioner for the colonial exhibition in Melbourne, and next year representative commissioner for New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania at the Philadelphia Exhibition. He was the executive commissioner for the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition.

1783. Mezzotint. Proof impression with scratched letter. Ref: CS 23 I. A young girl, kneeling before a milk-pail, attentively observes a snail creeping over ashes on a block to the right. A spaniel-like dog looks into her face. It was thought that on the morning of the !st of May, if a girl found a slug or snail and put it on a surface covered with flour or ashes, the snail would crawl out the initials of the future lover's name. Even just finding the snail was a good omen, indicating the lover will have a house of his own. The picture was inspired by a poem by John Gay. James Walker (1748-1808) was an eminent mezzotint engraver and James Northcote an important English painter.Laid loosely onton backing sheet. Small waterstains in the title area. Small rubbing on pail.

1800. Stipple engraving. 510mm by 385mm (platemark). Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (Lord Loughborough) (1733-1805), Lord Chancellor. Alexander Wedderburn came from a distinguished Scottish legal family; educated at Edinburgh, he practiced law there until he entered Parliament in 1761, sitting for the Scottish seat of Ayr Burghs. An ambitious lawyer, Wedderburn viewed his parliamentary interests as subservient to his advancement in the legal profession. He served as Solicitor General and Attorney General before receiving a peerage and an appointment as Chief Justice of Common Pleas. He was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1801.Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)was the son of a goldsmith, studied painting in Florence, trained as an engraver in Venice and began his career in Rome. In 1763 Richard Dalton, art dealer and librarian to George III, met him and invited him to London, promising him a post as engraver to the king. Bartolozzi moved to London the following year, and remained for thirty-five… Read More

1815. Soft ground etching. 380mm by 325mm (platemark). James Northcote (1746-1831) was an English painter and pupil and biographer of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Accompanied by original descriptive text. Library stamp on reverse. Trimmed just outside platemark on right hand side.

1910. Etching. 195mm by 125mm (platemark). Limited edition etching, signed, titled and editioned (5/30) in pencil. Nuttall (1872-1934) was a pupil of Frederick McCubbin and worked as an illustrator and printmaker in Melbourne.Some waviness to the paper. Stain from previous mount and old glue remains at top of the sheet.