Lime and Sycamore in Cobham Park.
J.G. Strutt 1824. [n.d., c.1826.] Etching, printed on chine collé. 315 x 380mm (12½ x 15"), large margins. Chine slightly lifting. Two large trees in the landscaped gardens of Cobham Park, as designed by John Bridges in the 1720s, rebuilt 1873. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60023] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Wallace Oak.
J.G. Strutt 1825. [n.d., c.1826.] Etching, printed on chine collé. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"), large margins. A portrait of a massive oak at Port Glasgow, to which Scottish independence leader William Wallace was said to have been chained in 1305 by the English. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 59993] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)