Fine Art

  • Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)

    # 46852

    McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)

    Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)

    [Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …

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  • Four Waimate councillors posing in their Oldsmobile after completing the first journey by motor car over Burkes Pass, 1904.

    # 50410

    COX, Arthur James

    Four Waimate councillors posing in their Oldsmobile after completing the first journey by motor car over Burkes Pass, 1904.

    Bromide print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, on original board mount, 250 x 300 mm, bearing the blind stamp of ‘Cox / Waimate’ in the lower right margin, and an indistinct manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image; the print is in excellent condition, the mount with minor corner wear and a small mark …

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  • Study for 'Inferno' c. 1966

    # 50490

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)

    Study for ‘Inferno’ c. 1966

    Coloured crayons on card, 20 x 20 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil lower right. A study for the major nine panel work ‘Inferno’ currently on long term loan from the The Estate of Lady Nolan to the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the …

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  • Study for 'Mrs. Fraser' c. 1966

    # 50491

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)

    Study for ‘Mrs. Fraser’ c. 1966

    Coloured crayons on card, 27 x 25.5 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil centre right. A study, or abstracted variation for the major the 1947 painting of Mrs Fraser, a theme Nolan would return to in the 1960s and 70s. ‘A female figure representing a certain Mrs Fraser … has the …

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  • Three signed etchings from 'The alignments' series

    # 50470

    LETI, Bruno (1941 - )

    Three signed etchings from ‘The alignments’ series

    Three two-plate etchings, each 215 x 150 mm, signed and dated 1999 lower right, titled lower left, artists proofs, mounted. Three striking and detailed original etchings by Bruno Leti created for his artist’s book ‘The Alignments’ published in 2000. Provenance: the artist, acquired 2025

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  • [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.

    # 50453

    "J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)

    [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

    Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …

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  • Portrait of Sappho of Lesbos

    # 50454

    THEVET, André (1516-1590):

    Portrait of Sappho of Lesbos

    “Sapho Lesbienne Poetrice” (caption). Copperplate engraving measuring 170 x 140 mm (image); 370 x 230 mm (sheet), letterpress in French surrounding the image, extracted from André Thevet’s Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens (Paris, 1584). A fine example of Thevet’s iconic representation of the classical Greek poet Sappho ( …

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  • Ambrotype portrait of "Jake and Charles. Two old cronies - intimate friends ... Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together." Dated 15 September, 1862.

    # 43407

    [Photographer unknown].

    Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

    [USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: ‘Taken Sept. …

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  • Peeps at Japan.

    # 49585

    BEATO, Felice (1832-1909)

    Peeps at Japan.

    [Yokohama, 1872]. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), half morocco over marbled papered boards (rubbed), upper board with original printed title label ‘Peeps at Japan’, spine lettered in gilt ‘Beato / Peeps at Japan’; original marbled endpapers, containing [20] albumen prints in format 155 x 200 mm, mounted recto only on leaves of lightweight card …

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  • Daguerreotype of a seated young woman wearing spectacles, c.1855.

    # 43390

    [Photographer unknown].

    Daguerreotype of a seated young woman wearing spectacles, c.1855.

    [USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 68 x 57 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat, housed in a leather case with embossed floral design, with a working brass clasp; the daguerreotype has a tarnish halo at left and lower edges, but is otherwise in fine condition; the case has only light wear …

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  • Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire "glove basket". Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

    # 50334

    SOLOMON & BARDWELL

    Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire “glove basket”. Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Solomon & Bardwell, Photographers, Ballarat’ contemporary inscription in ink: ‘M. Strack’; the print has some mottling in the negative and some very light creasing at left edge.

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  • The Emigrants' Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

    # 49774

    [THEOBOLD & CO.]

    The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

    [London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front glass, otherwise the set is …

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  • Gay Monopoly : a celebration of gay life!

    # 49788

    PARKER SISTERS; TOM OF FINLAND

    Gay Monopoly : a celebration of gay life!

    West Hollywood, CA : The Parker Sisters, Division of Fire Island Games, Inc., [1983]. Board game in the original box, 26 x 51 x 4 cm, as new in shrink-wrap, complete as issued; the contents (of which our images show components from an already opened example of the game) include the illustrated game board, card …

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  • Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.

    # 50370

    [NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

    Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.

    Two large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, both captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale’; both in fine condition, unmounted. Fitzroy Falls is an 80-metre waterfall located in what is now the Morton National Park in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, just southeast of …

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  • Bird on a lamp post

    # 48448

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Bird on a lamp post

    Watercolour on card, 158 x 208 mm, verso blank, unsigned. An original artwork by Blackman of a bird on a lamp post, the red roof of a warehouse in the lower portion.   Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and …

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  • Portrait of Cyrus William Doyle, son of pioneer Hunter Valley pastoralist Edmund Doyle. West Maitland, New South Wales, late 1860s.

    # 50314

    HART, Elijah

    Portrait of Cyrus William Doyle, son of pioneer Hunter Valley pastoralist Edmund Doyle. West Maitland, New South Wales, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elijah Hart, Photographic Artist, High Street, West Maitland, N.S.W.’, and a full contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Cyrus’; the vignetted portrait has some light marks that are mostly confined to the edges of the print. We believe the sitter to …

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