Fine Art

  • The most up-to-date Sydney panoramic views

    # 34646

    PHILLIPS, Harry

    The most up-to-date Sydney panoramic views

    Katoomba, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, n.d. [circa 1910]. Oblong folio (240 x 580 mm), publisher’s green thick paper wrappers, front with decorative lettering in blue (a few light marks and edge chips), [24] pp, photogravure process plates, including several stunning double-page panoramas (almost 1200 mm across), some pale foxing to a couple of the plates, …

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  • Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    # 25162

    Anon.

    Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    Also titled lower centre : Australia (Van Diemen’s Land). Lithograph printed in colour, 173 x 260 mm (image), plate number XXIV upper right, very pale foxing, else fine. Originally published in: Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden

    # 14771

    PELLERIN & CIE.

    [NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden

    [=The Counterfeit Savages]. Paris : Pellerin & Cie., [c.1902]. Series: Épinal no. 45. Lithographed print with hand colouring, folio sheet (400 x 295 mm); a graphic narrative with 16 illustrations; text in Dutch; unmounted; fine.  This Épinal print, originally issued around 1850, tells the story of a sideshow attraction in which two young men con …

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  • Consequences of a successful French invasion

    # 376

    GILLRAY, James

    Consequences of a successful French invasion

    No. 1. Plate 1. “We come to recover your long lost liberties”. Scene: The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, 1798 (the Bohn restrike of 1851). Etching with later hand colouring, 270 x 385mm; framed. Satirical depiction of the House of Commons if the planned French invasion was successful, a caption in the image reads ‘This house adjourned to Botany Bay’ …

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  • A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin's dog

    # 22606

    SPRING, Jessica

    A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin’s dog

    Tacoma [WA] : Springtide Press, 2009. Screenprinted broadside with hand colouring, 145 x 215 mm (image); 355 x 460 mm (sheet), with the printed quote from CHarles Darwin’s On the Origin if Species (1859) ‘I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on …

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  • Tristan Tzara with monocle

    # 13456

    DELAUNAY, Sonia (1884 - 1979)

    Tristan Tzara with monocle

    Lithograph, 370 x 160 mm, signed in pencil lower right. The play Le coeur à gaz by famed Romanian-born dadaist writer Tristan Tzara (1896 – 1963) was first performed in Paris, as part of the 1921 “Dada Salon” at the Galerie Montaigne. For it’s second performance in 1923 at théâtre Michel, the costumes were designed …

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  • [KANGAROO] Animaux sauvages. Wild animals. Wilde Thiere. Animales salvages. Animales salvaggios.

    # 10019

    BURCKARDT, C[amille]. (publisher)

    [KANGAROO] Animaux sauvages. Wild animals. Wilde Thiere. Animales salvages. Animales salvaggios.

    Weissenburg, Elsass [Wissembourg, Alsace] : C. Burckardt, [c.1890]. Chromolithographic broadsheet, 330 x 410 mm, title in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, captions in French in German, printed number “101” at upper right, unmounted, original vertical fold, fine. An attractive broadsheet produced for young children, featuring a large, centrally placed kangaroo.

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  • Souvenir of the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

    # 11542

    Anon.

    Souvenir of the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

    [s.l. : s.n., 1902]. Commemorative handkerchief for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, 320 x 320 mm, white cotton with chromolithographic design featuring portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, flanked by the letters ER, with outline maps of Canada, India, South Africa and Australia at each corner; original folds, a …

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  • Capturing Brisbane : the city's first photographers, 1855 to 1901.

    # 34592

    ROUGH, Brian G.

    Capturing Brisbane : the city’s first photographers, 1855 to 1901.

    Brisbane, Qld. : the author, 2022. Large quarto (305 x 220 mm), pictorial paper boards, pp 137; biographies of individual photographers and studios, numerous photographic illustrations, glossary of terms, index; errata page loosely inserted; an as new copy of what will surely be a useful reference for collectors of nineteenth-century Australian photographs, as well as …

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  • Calendrier des douze mois de l’année.

    # 12479

    ARNOUX, Guy (1886-1951)

    Calendrier des douze mois de l’année.

    Circa 1920. Set of twelve sheets of letter paper with pochoir wood engravings, on watermarked laid paper, each sheet 220 x 170 mm; each illustration signed by the artist in the image and with the calligraphic name of one of the months of the year beneath; an exceptionally fine set of designs in the unique …

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  • An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak 'Bible box'.

    # 34286

    Maker unknown.

    An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak ‘Bible box’.

    English (?) oak box with elaborately carved foliation in relief, 265 mm tall x 485 mm wide x 430 mm deep, with iron reinforcements to the corners of lid and sides of the box, two iron handles, the lid with the lettered ‘IHS KMD’ in relief and the front panel with carved date ‘ANO 1647’; …

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  • Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.

    # 34328

    HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)

    Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …

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  • Views of Sydney.

    # 28984

    BRODIE, Alexander (photographer, attributed); [CLARKE, Jacob Richard, 1822-1893, publisher?]

    Views of Sydney.

    [1879-1880]. Photograph album. Small oblong quarto, 210 x 275 mm, original half green morocco over black pebbled cloth boards (lightly rubbed) with double gilt rule, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views of Sydney’, spine with raised bands in gilt; all edges gilt, silk pastedowns and linen endpapers; containing 29 albumen print photographs in identical 150 …

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  • Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    # 34174

    FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    # 33738

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    # 34398

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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