Grosvenor Prints

Albert President of Societies for Sciences [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1859.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861) was elected President of the British Science Association in 1859.
[Ref: 51053] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Albert Chancellor of an University [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with very large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861), elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1847, holding the position until his death. He used this position to campaign successfully for a reformed and more modern university curricula, expanding the subjects taught beyond the traditional mathematics and classics, to include modern history and the natural sciences.
[Ref: 50846] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[H. C. Andersen.]
CH Jeens [signed in plate.]
[British, n.d. c.1870.]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title, rare. Plate 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6".
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 28000] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Edmund Anstie]
C.H.Jeens 75 [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 204 x 132mm.
Physician. [1833-1874]
[Ref: 3443] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Browne]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 215 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼").
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), doctor and author. After graduating from Oxford in 1627, he studied medicine at Padua and Montpellier universities, finishing his medical degree in Leiden in 1633. He settled in Norwich in 1637 and practised medicine there until his death. He also wrote on a variety of subjects: his 'Religio Medici' (The Religion of a Physician) was published without his authorisation in 1642 and was added to the the 'Papal Index Librorum Prohibitorum' the same year.
W: 448.
[Ref: 3444] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[William Kingdon Clifford]
C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 212 x 138mm.
Mathematician. [1845-1879]
[Ref: 3445] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens, his wife, & her sister. Drawn by Maclise in 1842.
Maclise R.A. C.H. Jeens [c.1872-4]
Soft-ground etching, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Triple portraits of the author Charles Dickens, his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina, after a drawing by his friend, the artist Daniel Maclise (bap. 1806- d.1870). Illustration to 'The Life of Charles Dickens' by John Forster (1872-4).
[Ref: 43517] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker]
C.H.Jeens 75 [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Signed in pencil. Plate 225 x 152mm. 8¾ x 6".
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was a Botanist, who with Lyell persuaded Darwin to publish his Origin of Species and a forceful proponent of evolutionary theory in later controversies. He published extensively on botany and succeeded his father Sir William Jackson Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens in 1865. He was also founder of geographical botany and was awarded the highest honour of British Science.
W: 1437-2.
[Ref: 26227] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Henry Huxley.] [From a photograph by Messrs. Elliott & Fry. Presented to the Subscribers to Nature N.223 .February 5th.1874.]
C.H.Jeens.
[London Published by Macmillan & Co. 1874.]
Engraving. 213 x 137mm.
Scientist and Mathematician. [1825-1895]
W: 1484-5.
[Ref: 3452] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[James Prescott Joule]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 209 x 138mm.
Physicist. [1818-1889]
W: 1549-2.
[Ref: 3453] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[James Russell Lowell]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 208 x 134mm.
Poet., Diplomat, U.S. Minister to Great Britain. [1819-1891]
[Ref: 3455] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Charles Lyell]
C.H.Jeens 75 [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 225 x 152mm. 9 x 6".
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1857) was a geologist. From 1823-1826 he was secretary of the Geological Society and later served as president. His highly influential Principles of Geology (1830-33) was an important source for Darwin's theories and went to many editions. He urged Darwin to publish 'Origin of Species', 1859, with Sir Joseph Hooker. He is considered the greatest geologist of his generation.
W: 1835-5.
[Ref: 26229] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Richard Owen.]
[C.H.Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. 160 x 130mm, 6¼ x 5".
Sir Richard Owen (1804 -92) KCB, English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, famed for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning 'Terrible Reptile') and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
[Ref: 11797] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[William Gifford Palgrave 1864]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate] [Engd. By C.H.Jeens, from the Medallion by J.Woolner]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 209 x 134mm.
Arabia interest. Diplomat [1826-1888]
[Ref: 3457] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, known as Sister Dora]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 216 x 141mm.
Philanthropist and Nurse. [1832-1878]
[Ref: 3458] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[James Andrew Bourn Ramsay, tenth Earl and first Marquis of Dalhousie]
Engraved by C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 248 x 179mm.
[Ref: 3446] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe]
C.H.Jeend [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 211 x 137mm.
Chemist. [1833-1915]
W: 2538.
[Ref: 3459] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Alfred Smee]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 203 x 128mm.
Surgeon. [1818-1877]
W: 2752-2.
[Ref: 3460] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Emanuel Swedenborg]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 209 x 136mm.
Scientist & Theologian [1688-1772]
W: 2858-1.
[Ref: 3462] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Wyville Thomson.]
C.H.Jeens 75.
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 215 x 137mm.
Naturalist [1830-1882]
W: 2926.
[Ref: 3463] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin of Largs]
C.H.Jeens 76 [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 211 x 137mm.
Physicist [1824-1907].
W: 1579.
[Ref: 3454] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[John Tyndall]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 208 x 137mm.
Natural Philosopher. [1820-1893]
W: 3003-1.
[Ref: 3464] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

General Wool Rescuing a Mexican Family.
H. Warren, Hon. Mem. Philadelphia Soc. of Fine Arts, &c. &c. C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1856] George Virtue, London & New York.
Engraving. Sheet 173 x 252mm. 6¾" x 10". Two small tears, and a crease. One visible stain outside of the image.
General Wool intervenes and rescues a Mexican lady and her child from being captured by Native Indians. John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) led the Chihuahuan Expedition during the Mexican–American War (1846-8)
[Ref: 8775] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

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