1811. Soft ground etching. 1811. 380mm by 325mm (platemark). Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) was a leading proponent of civil liberties in eighteenth-century England. He was trained in the law, and by 1757 had become Attorney General. He entered Parliament as an MP the following year, but resigned in.....
1811. Stipple engraving. 1811. 380mm by 300mm. Hester Lynch Piozzi (nee Salusbury; Mrs Thrale) (1741-1821) was a writer and friend of Dr Johnson. Light crease over top right corner."
1815. Stipple engraving. 1815. 380mm by 327mm (platemark). Isaac Milner FRS (1750 - 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and a great supporter of the abolitionists' campaign against.....
1810. Soft ground etching. 1810. 370mm by 320mm (plate mark) 535mm by 350mm (sheet). Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his bitter rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British portrait artists of.....
C1845. Mezzotint. C1845. 310mm by 235mm (image) 420mm by 330mm (sheet). India-laid proof. After an oil dated 1825. Sir Ralph Darling (1772 - 1858) was appointed in 1824 as Governor of New South Wales. He was the Governor of NSW from 1825 - 1831.A couple of very minor marks in.....