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Cattle.
Cattle.
Drawn by R.Hills. Etched by Letitia Byrne.
Published Jan.y 2, 1809 by Tho.s Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
Etching. 240 x 290mm, (9½ x 11½"), large margins.
Cattle and sheep in a highland landscape. Letitia Byrne (1779-1849), daughter of William Byrne the landscape engraver and publisher. She is best known for etching the 40 plates of Paul Amsinck's 'Description of Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood' in 1810.
[Ref: 68272]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cherrys & Daffodils]
[Cherrys & Daffodils] [Illustration from Hortus Floridus]
[Crispin van de Passe]
[J. Jansson] [n.d. c. 1616]
Finely hand-coloured engraving, 130 x 200mm (5¼ x 8"), with large margins. Nicks to edges of paper.
A page from 'Hortus Floridus', showing cherrys and daffodils. It was one of the best-known of the many 17th flower books. The book's plates were engraved by Crispijn de Passe junior (1589-1670), part of a famous printmaking family. The book consisted of two parts: the first comprised of some 175 illustrations of mostly bulbous and tuberous plants, and the second reproduced fruit, trees, and medicinal plants.
See [Ref: 40097] for frontis.
[Ref: 68398]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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