1818. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1818. 162mm by 100mm (platemark). Engraving of Australian native plant from Loddiges Botanical Cabinet. The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants into European gardens.The nursery rose to.....
1821. Copper-line engraving. 1821. 166mm by 100mm (platemark). Engraving of Australian native plant from Loddiges Botanical Cabinet. The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants into European gardens.The nursery rose to great prominence during.....
1788. Copper-line engraving. 1788. 120mm by 175mm (image). After the painting by John Webber. Published by C Cooke. Small black mark at top of the image.Trimmed within platemark at top of sheet. Toning at the bottom of the sheet.Beddie, 2627."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 195mm by 340mm (platemark). 'Prosp de Aqueduc d' Arcevil' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany. 2 printers'.....
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 190mm by 285mm (platemark). 'Prosp du Chasteau et Bourg de Tanlay' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 190mm by 290mm (platemark). 'Prosp. du Chasteau de Irrois en Champagne' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 195mm by 285mm (platemark). 'Chasteau Valeri' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 185mm by 285mm (platemark). L'Hostel de Chevreuse' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 185mm by 290mm (platemark). 'Prosp. horti Auraicorum Pomorum a Ruel' From Topographia Galliae , a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and cities.Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650) was one of the most prominent members of the leading print publishing family of 17th-century Germany."
C1655. Copper-line engraving. C1655. 185mm by 280mm (platemark). Viliers Costret' Villers-Cotterets is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardie in northern France. The chateau, known as Chateau de Noue was built in the 16th century for Francis I. It is famous because of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterets 1539 signed.....
1859. Steel-engraving. 1859. 100mm by 150mm (image only). A view from the north shore with St James's Church at centre. Faint cockling to the sheet. Faint foxing and line mark in outer margins."
C1820. Etching with original hand-colouring. C1820. 220mm by 130mm (sheet). A man dressed in full attire and wearing a monocle, points a pistol at another younger man standing with arms folded holding a pistol. A dogs sits watching. From "Takings or, the Life of a Collegian". Duelling interest."
C1835. Steel engraving with original hand-colouring. C1835. 240mm by 160mm (sheet). Depicts the kaka beak of New Zealand. From Paxton's Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants by Joseph Paxton.Slight creasing along right hand side.Ref : AUSBOTRef : NZBOT"
1784. Copper-line engraving. 1784. 165mm by 115mm (sheet). Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788) was an English collector of natural objects. In 1775, his Holophusicon opened to the public in Leicester Square. Captain James Cook was so impressed by Lever's collection that he donated objects from his own voyages to.....