1762. Copper-line engraving. 1762. 175mm by 265mm (platemark). Engraving from Robert Sayer's 'The Ladies Amusement or Whole art of Japanning Made Easy'. Robert Sayer (1724-94) was a reknown English publisher who printed several series of designs / patterns for painters on ceramics.Small indentations just right of centre of image. Visible.....
C1830. Stipple engraving. C1830. 195mm by 115mm (sheet). George Shaw (1751-1813) was an English naturalist. He published the first descriptions with scientific names of several of the common and best known Australian animals, for example, the platypus, echidna, wombat, budgerigar and black snake. He provided the well-known generic name (Macropus).....
1900. Photogravure. 1900. 365mm by 1040mm (sheet). The War : Battle of Potgieter's Drift, Jan 21. Panoramic View of the Position Looking North from Mount Alice (Spearman's Camp). Facsimile of sketch by Rene Bull, our special correspondent with General Buller'. Fold-out illustration published as a Supplement to 'Black and White'.....
1861-1865. Lithograph. 1861-1865. 240mm by 220mm (image). Eux toujours courir, Mes cheveux blanchir Moi, toujours attendre !' Lithograph from the from the series, ""Actualites"" published in 'Le Charivari'. The American Civil War (1861-1865) was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States. Eleven southern slave states declared.....
C1875. Tinted lithograph. C1875. 210mm by 160mm (image) 270mm by 210mm (sheet). William Dampier (1651 - 1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of New Holland (Australia) and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. Dampier has been described as the first natural historian of Australia and.....
1875. Stereoview - albumen photograph. 1875. 88mm by 177mm (card). Charles Nettleton was a commercial photographer based in Victoria, Australia. Paper label on the reverse. CONDITION : Faint foxing in the sky of each photograph.
1825. Steel-engraving. 1825. 240mm by 325mm (platemark). Coupang : Ile Timor. Vue d'un chantier de construction.' Timorese people and Europeans building a rowboat under a tree, with other boats in the distance. The scene is by a river. The work is being overseen by a senior naval man, possibly intended.....
1813. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1813. 250mm by 150mm (sheet). 'Native of South Coast of New Holland, commonly called Lewin's Land'. Banksia sessilis var. cordata is native to Western Australia. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine. William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist, in London, who maintained.....
1816. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1816. 225mm by 175mm (platemark). Quadrupedes: Didelphis petaurus, Didelphis sciureus, Didelphis penicillatus, Didelphis pygmaeus From 'Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend' by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), a German encyclopedic series published between 1801 and 1815. Faint waterstain at bottom of sheet."
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I (c100 - 140), was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. From ""Delle Antiche Statue Greche e Romane..., ""a collection of ancient Greek and Roman statues found in Venice.....
C1765. Soft ground etching printed in sanguine. C1765. 335mm by 230mm (platemark). Drawing study of flowers engraved and published by Gabriel Smith. Smith (1724-1783) was a stipple and line engraver after his contemporaries and the Old Masters. He learnt stipple and crayon manner engraving in Paris and worked in London.....
C1837. Wood-engraving. C1837. 215mm by 130mm (sheet). John Williams (1796-1839) was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Printed facsimile signature below the image."
1815. Soft ground etching. 1815. 380mm by 325mm (platemark). James Northcote (1746-1831) was an English painter and pupil and biographer of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Accompanied by original descriptive text. Library stamp on reverse. Trimmed just outside platemark on right hand side."
1844. Lithograph. 1844. 325mm by 240mm (sheet). 'Voyez donc un peu, Ismenie!.... Comment le Gouvernement permet-il d'afficher de pareilles turpitudes ?....' Just look at that, Ismenie!... How can the government allow posters advertising such disgraceful rubbish!Original lithograph by Honore Daumier published in Paris in 1844. From a series titled 'Les.....
1817. Copper-line engraving. 1817. 305mm by 445mm (platemark). From Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardiere's (1755-1834) 'Atlas du Voyage a la recherche de la Perouse', published in Paris, 1817 edition.
1875-1888. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 1875-1888. 540mm by 360mm (sheet). From John Gould's The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papua Islands, 1875-1888.
1784. Mezzotint. 1784. 435mm by 550mm. Scene from Shakespeare's 'King Lear'; Lear, reclining on bed beneath curtain, awakened to find the spirit of Cordelia kneeling beside his bed, holding his hand and looking into his eyes. Trimmed with loss of margins and title area. Faint creasing at top of the.....
C1850. Lithograph with hand-colouring and tinselled. C1850. 210mm by 160mm (sheet). Tinsel theatrical lithograph published by John Redington (1819-1876). Tinsel prints were created from etched portraits of theatrical stars in popular roles they played on the London stage. They were hand-painted in watercolour and decorated with scraps of material and.....
C1886. Colour lithograph. C1886. 500mm by 595mm (sheet). Map of the Counties of Yancowinna, Tandora, Livingstone, Woore' Map extends from the borders of QLD & SA to Hillston in the east and Tooleybu in the south.Central vertical fold as issued."
C1860. Steel engraving with original outline colour. C1860. 610mm by 490mm. South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania'.
1892. Steel engraving with original hand-colouring. 1892. 610mm by 495mm (sheet). Steel-engraved map with original colouring, from 'Keith Johnston's General Atlas' of 1892. W. & A.K. Johnston was a major geographical publishing house, co-founded by the brothers William (1802-1888) and Alexander Keith (1804-1871)."
1822. Lithograph. 1822. 150mm by 200mm (image) 270mm by 365mm (sheet). 'Ruines trouves dans l'interieur de Tinian, par MM Gaudiehaund, Berard et Arago' From Jacques Arago's 'Promenade autour du monde, pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi L'Uranie et La Physicienne, commandees par M......
1910. Chromolithograph. 1910. 235mm by 140mm (sheet). '217 Hydnum imbricatum 218 Hydnum zonatum 219 Hydnum auriscalpium'. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, illustrated by chromolithographs from watercolours by the illustrator Aimé Bessin (1870-1942), and written by Léon Rolland (1841-1912).....
1910. Chromolithograph. 1910. 235mm by 140mm (sheet). '234 Clavaria formosa 235 Clavaria pistillaris 236 Calocera flammea'. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, illustrated by chromolithographs from watercolours by the illustrator Aimé Bessin (1870-1942), and written by Léon Rolland (1841-1912).....
1910. Chromolithograph. 1910. 235mm by 140mm (sheet). '256 Marcella rotunda'. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, illustrated by chromolithographs from watercolours by the illustrator Aimé Bessin (1870-1942), and written by Léon Rolland (1841-1912), the president of the Mycological Society.....