#copper engravings

Do you ever hear birds with a British accent? Well, not likely, but these four birds are from one of our beautiful 19th-century natural history titles, the six-volume History of British Birds, by Francis Orpen Morris. These hand-colored copper engravings were printed by the esteemed Benjamin Fawcett...

Receptie van Hare K.H. M de Princ. van Orangie. als koningin van gr: Britange = Reception of Her Roial High. The Princesse of Orange as queene of great Brittain Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch; 1645–1708) 1689 Copper engraving Published by Johannes Tangena The British Library, London

Spring has sprung and our special collections is full of blooms (all year ‘round actually), including these beautiful hand-colored copper engravings by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) from his highly prized, two-volume The New Botanic Garden published in 1812, filled with 133 gorgeous prints...

A rose is a rose is a rose, unless it’s gorgeous hand-colored copper engravings of roses, like these from our beautiful and rare volume of Die Rosen nach der Natur gezeichnet und colorirt mit Kurzen botanischen Bestimmungen begleitet (ca. 1802) by Karl Gottlob Rössig (1752-1806)...