Item 1235Kanguro Lanuto
C1837. Copper-line engraving. C1837. 220mm by 135mm (platemark). Italian engraving from 'Enciclopedia Italiana Illustrata'. Faint handling creases below image and title area, exaggerated in the scan."
Australiana
Item 2847Pacific Portraits
C1820. Copper-line engraving. C1820. (sheet). Five portraits on one sheet - ‘A Man of the Sandwich Islands', 'A Woman of the Sandwich Islands', 'A Man of Mangea, Omai or Omia a Native of Ulietea’ and ‘Capt James Cook FRS Killed on the Island of Owhyhee 14th Feb 1779'. ‘Engraved for.....
Item 1023Perameles nasuta Geoffr. (Long-Nosed Bandicoot)
C1775. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. C1775. 290mm by 220mm (sheet). German copper-line engraving from the German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber's (1739-1810) 'Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' ['Mammals Illustrated after Nature with Descriptions'] published from 1774 onwards. Wove paper. "
Item 2482Breccia Cave, at Wellington Valley
1839. Tinted lithograph. 1839. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone, 1839.
Item 2475Breccia from the surface (Wellington Valley)
1839. Tinted lithograph. 1839. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone, 1839.
Item 2481Entrance to the Largest Cavern, Wellington Valley
1839. Lithograph with later hand-colouring. 1839. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). Depicts Major Mitchell sketching the entrance of the caves in Wellington Valley, New South Wales. From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of.....
Item 1032Burra Burra Copper Mines
C1875. Steel-engraving. C1875. 125mm by 175mm (image) 200mm by 270mm (sheet). From 'Australia' by Edwin Carton Booth. Prout was an English artist who emigrated to Sydney in 1840."
Item 1336The Old & New Home Stations
1874. Steel-engraving. 1874. 120mm by 175mm (image) 200mm by 270mm (sheet). The station is believed to be Bontharambo at Wangaratta, Victoria. From 'Australia' by Edwin Carton Booth. CONDITION : A couple of foxing marks in outer margins. Some foxing evident on the reverse at the top of the sheet.
Item 1242Hunter's Wombat, Stubb's Kangaroo and others
C1815. Copper-line engraving. C1815. 260mm by 210mm (sheet). Depicts : Petaurine Opossum - Fenner Wombat - Common Opossum - Kanguroo - Squirrel- Jackal - Wolf.'Engraved for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia by J Moffat, Edin'.The Edinburgh Encyclop_dia was an encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by.....
Item 3312Vue de la Rade de Hobart Town (Ile Van-Diemen) (Tasmania)
1833. Lithograph with later hand-colouring. 1833. 325mm by 510mm (sheet) 220mm by 330mm (image). From Dumont d’Urville’s 'Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique.’, 1833. CONDITION : Image good. Poorly repaired tear lower right corner. Some handling creases in the margins. "
Item 3702Punition des Matelots, a Hobart Town (Ile Van Diemen)
1843. Lithograph. 1843. 255mm by 320mm (sheet). French lithograph depicting a sailor on a treadmill watch by guards. From Elie Le Guillou's 'Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont-d'Urville, pendant les annees 1837, 38, 39 et 40.' Published in Paris in.....
Item 1047Angela Coutts
1874. Steel-engraving. 1874. 180mm by 130mm (image) 275mm by 200mm (sheet). Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814 - 1906) was a 19th century philanthropist. She helped to form societies for the protection of Aborigines in Australia. "
Item 1240Potoroo
1839. Wood-engraving with original hand-colouring. 1839. 305mm by 190mm (sheet). From Guerin-Meneville's 'Dictionnaire Pittoresque D'histoire Naturelle Et Des Phenomenes De La Nature'. Guerin Menevile (1799-1874) was a French entomologist and naturalist."
Item 4216Bathurst
1886. Wood-engraving. 1886. 185mm by 280mm (sheet). Part-page illustration from 'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. Partial text / image on reverse. Fullwood was born near Birmingham in 1863, and studied art at evening classes in that city. He came to Sydney in 1881 and obtained work as a lithographic draughtsman.....
Item 4218Green Cape and Disaster Bay - Mount Imlay in the Distance
1886. Wood-engraving. 1886. 125mm by 290mm (sheet). Part-page illustration from 'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. Partial text / image on reverse. Fullwood was born near Birmingham in 1863, and studied art at evening classes in that city. He came to Sydney in 1881 and obtained work as a lithographic draughtsman.....
Item 4215Parramatta
1886. Wood-engraving. 1886. 190mm by 290mm (sheet). Part-page illustration from 'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. Partial text / image on reverse. Fullwood was born near Birmingham in 1863, and studied art at evening classes in that city. He came to Sydney in 1881 and obtained work as a lithographic draughtsman.....
Item 4219Summer Street, Orange
1886. Wood-engraving. 1886. 130mm by 190mm (sheet). Part-page illustration from 'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. Partial text / image on reverse. Fullwood was born near Birmingham in 1863, and studied art at evening classes in that city. He came to Sydney in 1881 and obtained work as a lithographic draughtsman.....
Item 1592Charles Wilkes
1864. Steel-engraving. 1864. 190mm by 140mm (image) 285mm by 210mm (sheet). Facsimile signature under the engraving. Charles Wilkes (1798 - 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the 'Wilkes Expedition' was carried by.....
Item 3577Le Peramele Bougainville (Bandicoot)
C1840. Engraving with original hand-colouring. C1840. 155mm by 255mm (sheet). French 19th century engraving of a bandicoot. "
Item 1158Richard Brooks
Tinted lithograph, 1888. 270mm by 210mm (sheet). Facsimile signature below the image. Richard Brooks (c1765-1833) was captain of the convict ship Atlas which arrived in New South Wales in 1802.
Item 2849Mrs Humphry Ward
C1900. Rotary Photo Postcard. C1900. 135mm by 85mm. Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold (1851 – 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists. "
Item 2848Professor Huxley
C1900. Rotary Photo Postcard. C1900. 135mm by 85mm. Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (1825 -1895) who was an English biologist (anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley was made Assistant Surgeon ('surgeon's mate') to HMS Rattlesnake, about to start for.....
Item 1408Vengeance d'un Roi de la Nouvelle Zelande, Akaroua
1843. Lithograph. 1843. 145mm by 225mm (sheet). From Elie Le Guillou's 'Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont-d'Urville, pendant les annees 1837, 38, 39 et 40.' Published in Paris in 1843. Elie de Guillou (1806-1855) held the position of chief surgeon.....
Item 3497'Green Peach Aphis' (Myzus?)
1895. Chromolithograph. 1895. 215mm by 135mm (sheet). Chromolithograph, with gum Arabic highlights, printed by Sands & McDougall, from Charles French's 'A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria', 1891-1900. Accompanied by original descriptive sheet. Charles Clifton Brittlebank was an Australian plant pathologist, mycologist, scientific illustrator, university lecturer and farmer. ".....
Item 1407Naturels de la Nelle Zelande (Maoris)
1843. Lithograph. 1843. 145mm by 225mm (sheet). From Elie Le Guillou's 'Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont-d'Urville, pendant les annees 1837, 38, 39 et 40.' Published in Paris in 1843. Elie de Guillou (1806-1855) held the position of chief surgeon.....