Teachers/Professors gift guide
Is a beloved Professor retiring? A long-standing lecturer leaving? Or do you just want to show your teacher some appreciation after a long school year? Check out some great gift ideas below!
Prints of specific schools
David Law [pencil signature; 'D Law' etched in image.]
[British, n.d., c.1885.]
Drypoint etching on india paper, artist's presentation proof with his personal dedication in pencil lower right (dedicatee unclear). 250 x 355mm, 9¾ x 14". Remarque of books with lamp and ink pot to lower margin. A very fine impression with full margins, mint. Artist's signature in lower right.
Inscribed 'Private proof' in pencil lower left. David Law (1831 - 1901), etcher and landscape painter, born in Edinburgh; moved to London in 1850s, one of the founders of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers, Engravers in 1881. Died in Sussex.
[Ref: 21879] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Prints of specific universities
A.Watson Turnbull. [pencil]
[n.d. c.1935.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 250 x 380mm (9¾ x 15")
Andrew Watson Turnbull was a painter, etcher and stained glass artist who exhibited at the R.A. and elsewhere.
[Ref: 45947] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Have they got a dry sense of humour? Perhaps some educational satire
W. Heath Del et Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A red-faced teacher hurls a desk globe into the face of a mischievious pupil. One from a series of satires on educational subjects.
[Ref: 54312] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
General educational scenes
Painted by Thos. Duche. Engrav'd by Heny. Birche.
[Published March 23rd 1790 by B.B. Evans, Poultry, London.]
Mezzotint printed in colours, sheet 276 x 232mm. Very fine colour. Trimmed within plate, losing title and publication line.
A studious child showing off his writing skills, a pair to 'Who would be Naughty to look so Ugly'. After Thomas Spence Duché (1763 - 1790), American born student of Benjamin West in London. 'Henry Birche' is assumed to be a pseudonym for Richard Earlom.
[Ref: 8090] £320.00
Prints for the Geography teacher
Maps are a good starting place:
W. Snow, Publisher Theobald's Road. [n.d., c.1815.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 140 x 105mm. Laid on card as issued, some staining.
An anthropomorphic caricature of England and Wales as a grotesque man, frothing tankard in hand, riding a monstrous dolphin, his blue cape creating Wales. It is a smaller copy of Robert Dighton's 'Geography Bewitched'. This example appears to be an early state, before 'A Caricature of' was added above the title box.
[Ref: 42819] £320.00
Australian Explorers 1, Leichardt. 2, Sturt. 3, Burke. 4, Wills.
[Anon., c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 160 x 220mm (6¼ x 8½").
Portraits of: Ludwig Leichardt (1813-48), Charles Sturt (1795-1869), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-61), and William John Wills (1834-61). From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44029] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
The English/Drama teacher
Can't go wrong with Shakespeare :
William Shakespeare.
From the original Picture by Cornelius Jansen. Engraved by
Cha.s Turner Mezzotinto Engraver in ordinary to His Majesty.
[n.d. c.1883.]
Mezzotint. 184 x 126mm. 7¼ x 5". (sheet size) Rare, trimmed inside plate mark.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) dramatist and poet.
Whitman: 519.
[Ref: 24553] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Or other portraits of writers:
T. Phillips R.A. pinxit. C. Warren sculpsit.
[c.1824]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, proof before title; 270 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter."
Not in O'D; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34944] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed March 15th, 1776 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand [watermarked 1821].
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with very wide margins.
Falstaff, one of the companions of the young Prince Hal, alongside Bardolph, Poins and Peto. This group is the comic relief in a grim slice of English history. From the second set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15867] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
History Teachers
I'm sure history teachers would enjoy our entire website! However battle scenes may be a good starting point:
The Battle of Agincourt.
Hamilton delin. A.W. Warren sculp.
[1803.]
Engraving, Sheet size: 155 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed inside plate.
The
English army defeated the French on 25th October 1415 at Battle of
Agincourt. An illustration from Lyttleton's 'History of England',
depicting the Battle scene at Agincourt, with knights in combat with
swords and axes in the centre, and a row of archers beyond at the left.
[Ref: 39460] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Or scenes of European history:
[Execution of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt] 13 Mey 1619. Ik ben wel
gerust te sterven: maer kan geen redenen bedenken waerom ik sterven met
[...]
[Anon., c.1650]
Etching, sheet 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Repaired tear.
Dutch
statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) led to his execution at
the Binnehof in the Hague. Van Oldenbarnevelt held the influential
position of Land's Advocate of Holland for thirty-two years, but after
he proposed that the States of Holland raise a force of 4000 men to keep
the peace, this was interpreted as a declaration of independence by the
States-General, who arrested Oldenbarnevelt and sentenced him to death.
For another image of Oldenbarnevelt's execution see ref. 42795.
[Ref: 44191] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Classical Civilisation/Latin Teachers
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by L.s Schiavonetti.
[London: F. I. Du Roveray, 1806.]
Engraving. Sheete 260 x 171mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Bit messy. Trimmed within plate, some surface wear.
Minerva appears to help Odysseus kill off the suitors who are trying to marry Penelope and take over his beloved Ithaca. An illustration from Pope's translation of Homer's 'Illiad', the epic story of the the fall of Troy.
Weinglass: 242.
[Ref: 55607]
Or perhaps a portrait of someone like Homer or Caesar:
B. Moncornet excu.
[n.d. c.1670.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 157 x 117mm. 6¼ x 4½". Stuck down on sheet.
Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC). Roman military and political leader. Standing strong holding a staff, with Rome in the background and a small fire in the far left-hand background.
[Ref: 12786] £65.00
Physical Education Teacher
We have all sorts of sporting prints: cricket, rugby, dance, football, horse riding etc.
Lord Harris.
A.Chevallier Tayler. 1905.
Spottiswode & Co. Ltd. Lith. London.
Chormolithograph. 255 x 380mm. Crease lower left.
George
Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris [1851-1931]. A great batsman
and a brilliant field in his younger days, and all his life a commanding
figure in the world of cricket. Born in Leytonstone, Essex, in 1862 to
a legal family, Albert Chevallier Tayler won a scholarship to the Slade
School when he was 17. He prints date from the same period as his
commissioned by Kent County Cricket Club to paint what has now become
his most famous painting of 'Kent Vs. Lancashire'. In his career he
exhibited 49 paintings in total at the Academy, and he was also the
Honorary Secretary of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists.
Albert Chevallier Tayler died in 1928.
[Ref: 1252] £120.00
Science/Maths Teacher
Archimedes Philosophe.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 400 x 267mm. 15¾ x 10½".
Archimedes
of Syracuse (287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist,
engineer, inventor and astronomer. He is seen as one of the leading
scientists in classical antiquity. Through his studies he laid the
foundations of hydrostatices, statics and an explanation of the
principle of the lever.
W: 96.
[Ref: 15644] £90.00
Joannes Sturmius
Hh [monogram of Henricus Hondius].
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Joannes
Sturmius Mechlinianus (Johannes Storms of Mechelen, 1559-1650), Belgian
mathematician, physician and poet. He was appointed to the chair in
mathematics at Lily College, Leuven, in 1593.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 53040] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Air Pump improved by Mr. Haukesbee F.R.S.
Printed for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms, S.t Pauls Church Yard, 1747.
Enrgaving. Plate: 165 x 90mm (6½ x 3½") with large margins.
A
diagram of an air pump designed by scientist Francis Hauksbee
(1660-1713). The double barrelled pump was presented to the Royal
Society in 1703.
[Ref: 46304] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
Natural History or medical items might be good for biologists.
Art/Design/Textiles Teachers
They may like a print after a famous artist or a portrait of one:
Benjamin West Esq.r President of the Royal Academy and Historical Painter to his Majesty.
Benj.m West Esq.r P.R.A. Pinx.t T. Holloway sculp.t
Published as the Act directs, by Tho.s Holloway, & the other Proprietors, April 25. 1798.
Engraving and etching. Plate 299 x 241mm. 11¾ x 9½". Slight printers crease.
Engraving
after a self-portrait by Benjamin West; half-length seated slightly to
right, looking to front, wearing short wig, plain coat with bright
buttons and frill; curtain behind, pulled back to reveal Somerset House
beyond at the right. The print was published as an illustration to the
first English edition of Johann Caspar Lavater's 'Physiognomische
Fragmente', Vol III, pl. 171, between pp.150-51. Benjamin West
(1738-1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around
and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was the
second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to
1805 and again from 1806 until his death.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25512] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Femme de qualite en grisette.
I. D. De St. Iean delin. 1683.
Avec Privilege du Roy. Se Vend A Paris sur le quay Pelletier à la pomme d'Or au troisme. apartement.
Etching, 295 x 185mm. 11¼ x 7¼".
A
French lady sits in an armchair. Published by Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean
(c.1655 - 1695), after his own design. From a series of prints of
female fashions at the court of Louis XIV (1638 – 1715).
BNF: FRBNF41095177.
[Ref: 13105] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
We also have lots of prints of galleries and exhibitions in store.
Language Teachers
Perhaps a print from a country whose language they teach:
Abbeville-France. [in pencil.]
Louis Whirter [signed in pencil.]
Etching, publisher's blind stamp. Plate: 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8'') very
large margins. Printer's crease.
A view of the French town of Abbeville, with the cathedral in the backround.
[Ref: 49383] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Music Teacher
Maybe their favourite instrument:
Improvistaion. Revue des Peintres. M. Alophe (dessin.) Pl.119.
M. Alophe lith. Imp: d'Aubert et de Junca, gal: Colbert.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph on india with very large margins. 271 x 209mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Small tear to upper edge of sheet.
A
drawing room with a man sat playing the piano, and rather than
following the sheet music, he admires the two young belles that gaze on
at him.
[Ref: 34634] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
See our Ten of the Best Musical portraits.
We also have lots of portraits of composers and musicians.
We have lots more options in store if you can't find anything online, contact us and we can give you suggestions!
