Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

enclopedia Londonensis

An extract of our prints currently available:

Images from Encyclopædia Londonsis 1814

Camels  Ency. Londonensis

Camels      Edwards/J.Scott  

Plates of Quadrupeds From Encyclopædia Londonensis

Hand coloured antique copper engravings. Matted. Glazed. Framed.
An important 19th Century encyclopaedia which was regarded by some as subversive when it first appeared.
It was edited by Revd. Abraham Rees (1743–1825). The majority of the engravings were produced by Sydenham Edwards (artist) and by engravers such as Milton, Wilson Lowry, John Farey, Jr.& John Scott.

Published by Longman, Hurst Rees Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row London. 1806-13 [1814]
Image size 10 ¼ x 7 ¼” approx. Page size 21 x 27 cm. Frame 14 ½ x 113/4”
Ref. 151 DiW1-9/SN ea /r.andv >ANN each 

 

Plates of Quadrupeds From Encyclopædia Londonensis or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, comprehending, under one general alphabetical arrangement, all the words and substance of every kind of dictionary extant in the English language : in which the improved departments of the mechanical arts, the liberal sciences, the higher mathematics, and the several branches of polite literature, are selected from the acts, memoirs, and transactions, of the most eminent literary societies, in Europe, Asia, and America : forming a comprehensive view of the rise, progress, and present state, of human learning in every part of the world : embellished by a most magnificent set of copper-plate engravings ...

big cats
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Bears

Geese
Frogs
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bears
 
geese
 
frogs