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[Lord Kelvin]
[Lord Kelvin]
[after Sir Hubert von Herkomer] T. Hamilton Crawford [signed in pencil].
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26 Museum Street, London WC, Copyright.
Colour-printed mezzotint on india, proof before letters, platemark 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾") very large margins. Offered with accompanying letterpress description. Blindstamp lower left.
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), mathematician and physicist who served as a professor at Glasgow University for fifty-three years. Engraved after the portrait by Herkomer (1891) which remains at the university. One of a series of colour-printed mezzotints published by the Museum Galleries in the 1920s.
[Ref: 47312]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Carl von Linnaeus.]
[Carl von Linnaeus.]
T. Hamilton Crawford [pencil signature].
Published 1925 by The Museum Galleries, 53, Shorts Gardens, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 275 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins, with a letterpress biography.
Seated portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) Swedish botanist & zoologist, known as the "father of modern taxonomy". According to the letterpress, the original oil, painted by Alexander Roslin, is owned by the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 1778 - not in.
[Ref: 57848]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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