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George Edwards (1694–1773)

Edwards was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology". Edwards was born at Essex. In his early years he travelled extensively through mainland Europe, studying natural history, and gained some reputation for his colored drawings of animals, especially birds. In 1733, he was appointed librarian to the Royal college of Physicians in London. In 1743 he published the first volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, This work contains engravings and descriptions of more than 600 subjects in natural history not before described or delineated.

We have many hand-colored Edwards antique bird prints and other vintage prints available.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707– 1788)

Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist and encyclopedic author. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Babtiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime; with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. It has been said that "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century."  Buffon prints are available in many publications printed over three centuries.

SANDTIQUE is pleased to offer several groups of natural history Buffon prints. Go to our store and search "Buffon" or click above..

Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867)

Selby was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist. Selby was born in Northumberland and studied at Univeristy College. He is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821–1834), the first set of life-sized illustrations of British Birds. He also wrote Illustrations of Ornithology with William Jardine.  Many of the antique bird print illustrations in his works were drawn from specimens in his collection. His collections of antiqarion prints were sold in 1885 and became dispersed.

John Gould (1804–1881)

Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin’s finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin’s book, “The Origin of the Species”.

Gould was born in Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist, and his skill led to him becoming the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827.

Baron Cuvier (1769-1832)

Cuvier was born in Montbeliard, France. By the age of twelve "he was as familiar with quadrupeds and birds as a first-rate naturalist." . So in July, 1788 he took a job in Normandy as tutor to the only son of the Comte d'Hericy, a Protestant noble. It was here during the early 1790s that he began his comparisons of fossils with extant forms. As a result Cuvier entered into correspondence with several leading naturalists of the day and was invited to Paris. 

Cuvier was also known for his fine hand-colored  antique animal prints.

Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816 –1878)

Duyckinck was an American publisher and biographer. He was born in New York City to Evert Duyckinck, a publisher. After graduation he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He spent the next year in Europe  In 1845, he assisted Edgar Allan Poe in printing his Tales collection and selected which stories to include. Immediately after the death of Washington Irving, Duyckinck gathered together and published in one volume a collection of anecdotes and traits of the author, under the title of Irvingiana (1859); History of the War for the Union (3 vols., 1861'5); Memorials of John Allan (1864); National Gallery of Eminent Americans (2 vols., 1866); History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (4 vols., 1870); and an extensive series of Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (2 vols., 1873'4). His last literary work was the preparation, with William Cullen Bryant, of a Victorian prints  edition of William Shakespeare.. In January 1879, a meeting in his memory was held by the New York historical society, and a biographical sketch of Duyckinck was read by William Allen Butler.

Oliver Goldsmith (1730 – 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). He also wrote A History of the Earth and Animated Nature.

He settled in London in 1756, where he briefly held various jobs, including an apothecary's assistant and an usher of a school. Perennially in debt and addicted to gambling, Goldsmith produced a massive output as a hack writer for the publishers of London, but his few painstaking works earned him the company of Samuel Johnson, with whom he was a founding member of "The Club". His premature death in 1774 may have been partly due to his own misdiagnosis of his kidney infection. There are many Goldsmith antique animal prints available from dozens of pubilications..

William Hogarth (1697–1764)

Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.  His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian."

William Hogarth was born in London to a poor Latin school teacher and textbook writer. In his youth he was apprenticed to the engraver Ellis Gamble and he learned to engrave trade cards and similar products. Young Hogarth also took a lively interest in the street life of the metropolis and the London fairs, and amused himself by sketching the characters he saw. Hogarth prints are availalbe from  several publications.

Sir William Jardine, (1800-1874)

Jardine born in the Isle of Wight, was a Scottish naturalist. He made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing and issuing the hugely popular forty volumes of The Naturalist's Library (1833-1843). The 40 volumes is divided into four main sections: Ornithology (14 volumes), Mammalia (13 volumes), Entomology (7 volumes), and Ichthyology (6 volumes); each prepared by a leading naturalist. The artists responsible for the illustrations included Edward Lear. The work was published in Edinburgh by W.H Lizars. Jardine was a personal friend of  Prideaux Selby.

Jardine prints are avialable in the antique bird prints category as well as Animals, Fish and Insects. Jardine prints are all similar as the animal or bird is hand-colored while the backgorund copper engraving is left black and white. We have over 150 unique Jardine prints available.

Cesar Daly (1811-1894)

César Daly, one of the leading architects and architectural critics of his day, was the founder of the Revue Generale d’Architecture, France’s first illustrated architectural journal and one of the foremost architectural journals on both sides of the Atlantic during the 19th century. His history of ornamental details, first published in 1869-70, is a monumental visual documentation of French architectural sculpture from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, stemming from his restoration of the cathedral of Alby at Tarn. Daly also spent three years in the Americas, and in 1856 was the first to note several important pre-Columbian ruins, perhaps fostering his professional interest in city planning. “Daly’s theorization of those elements that determined the underlying infrastructure of cities and their centres, modern as well as ancient, was modelled upon Paris. Daly was important, not only as an architectural critic but also in respect to a theoretical understanding of city formation… His ideas, moreover, mark an important step in the eventual emergence of modern urban planning”

 Nicholas Culpeper (1616 – 1654)

Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologr. His published books include The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge. Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs. Culpeper came from a long line of notable people including Thomas Culpeper, the lover of Catherine Howard (also a distant relative) who was sentenced to death by Catherine's husband, King Henry VIII.

Culpeper attempted to make medical treatments more accessible to laypersons by educating them about maintaining their health. Ultimately his ambition was to reform the system of medicine by questioning traditional methods and knowledge and exploring new solutions for ill health. The systemization of the use of herbals by Culpeper was a key development in the evolution of modern pharmaceuticals, most of which originally had herbal origins.

John Flaxman (1755-1826) - Early in his career, Flaxman was a design artist for Wedgewood Pottery and later was a famous sculptor. (both using nude Greek designs)  Flaxman used the simple designs in his production of the Iliad prints. Even though represented as only an outline, the artist puts enough realism  in them so that the illustrations are full of drama and action in keeping with Homer's original writings.

The engravings were of immense influence on the European artists of the Neo-classical movement and were assessed by George Romney, the famous painter in his words "They are outlines without shadows, but in the style of ancient art. They are simple, grand & pure. They look as if they had been made when Homer wrote."