A Collection of Rare Mid 19th Century French, Hand Coloured Wood Engravings
A Collection of Rare Mid 19th Century French, Hand Coloured Wood Engravings
Watercolours and vegetable dye inks.
1855 France
Single $380 ea
Multiple $300 ea
25cm x 17cm
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40 Relief ChromoLithographs of English Fern Leaves C1870
40 relief chromo lithographs of English fern leaves, having raised print on branches.
C.1870
23cm x 15cm
$110 each Reduced to $55 each
Jan Kip – A Rare Set of Early 18th Century English Copper Engravings of Grand English Estates
A Rare Set of Early 18th Century English Copper Engravings of Grand English Estates
By Jan Kip
1720
60 x 70cm
Johannes “Jan” Kip (1652/53, Amsterdam – 1722, Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. Together with Leonard Knyff, he made a speciality of engraved views of English country houses.
Trio of Elizabeth Blackwell Botanicals 1737
Three beautiful Botanicals, newly framed.
‘Scorzonera’ ‘The Great Water dock’ ‘Plantain’
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
Her project was a book called ‘A Curious Herbal’.
She learned that physicians required a reference book which documented the medicinal qualities of plants and herbs. In order to develop the publication she examined and drew specimens of plants available in the Chelsea Physic Garden. Sir Hans Sloane provided financial support to publish ‘A Curious Herbal’.
Elizabeth Blackwell is notable for being one of the first botanical artists to personally etch and engrave her own designs. This saved the expense of hiring a professional engraver. In total, the enterprise took Blackwell six full years to complete and in the end she was able to release her husband from prison. ‘A Curious Herbal’ was published between 1737 and 1739.
The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World.
H. 68.5cm W. 113cm
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’ (Pre Framing)
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
Here, pictured unframed.
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
Willughby Fish (unframed collection) 1680
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Willughby Fish
Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
From the first large work on fishes in England, marking a new era in ichthyology that clearly described and classified fishes according to nature and based on their characteristics drawn only from their structure.
1680
23.5 cm x 38 cm (unframed)
Willughby Fish
Willughby Fish – Mola Salu – 1680
Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
From the first large work on fishes in England, marking a new era in ichthyology that clearly described and classified fishes according to nature and based on their characteristics drawn only from their structure.
Framed H. 46.5 cm W. 49 cm
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
Yet to be professionally photgraphed, these are iPhone photos.
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse *36
Pages of ‘Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse’.
No. 36 – Perdrix, male et female, de la Californie – California Male and Female Partridge Birds.
La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue discoveries of Captain Cook.
He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narratives, maps and views survived and were published in 1797.
73 cm x 54 cm
A collection of 19th Century coloured engravings of whaling scenes – CGW134489/8
A collection of 19th Century coloured engravings of whaling scenes
20 cm x 31.5 cm (unframed) x 2
32 cm x 41 cm (unframed) x 2
Bivalubus (Shells) Chonchology (unframed) – 1668 – CGW134489-7-35
A Portsea home that Brownlow Interior Design dressed using some of our art and furniture
Bivalubus (shells) Chonchology Historiae Conchyliorum.
One of the earliest published books dedicated to the subject of chronchology (etching and engraving)
Unframed Collection
1668
Pennant – “The Seal” – 1766
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“The Seal”
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a Welsh naturalist and travel writer, achieving distinction in both fields.
He attended Oxford University.
His natural history book “The British Zoology” was published in 1766 and was very influential to the study of Zoology.
Drawing by Peter Paillou, engraved by Johan Jakob Haid
36.5 cm x 53 cm (unframed)
Capra – 19th Century coloured lithograph animal – CGW134468-3.1
Capra’ Wild goat
19th Century coloured lithograph animal.
A. Gatt
78 cm x 95 cm (framed)