Fine Art

# 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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# 48431

BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel

Views in Japan, India, & China

[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …

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# 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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# 50375

BATCHELDER & O'NEILL

[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O’Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O’Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.

I. Portrait of Arthur Augustus O’Mullane (1841-1865), by Batchelder & O’Neill (41 Collins Street, East, Melbourne). Albumen print, carte de visite format (103 x 63 mm. mount). Fine condition; accompanied by its original album window mount inscribed with the sitter’s name ‘Arthur O’Mullane’. II. Portrait of George Jeremiah Patrick O’Mullane (1842-1866), by Batchelder & O’Neill …

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# 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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# 45812

JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.

[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto inscribed in ink in a fully contemporary hand in the lower margin: ‘J. C. J. … Sunbury’; verso inscribed in the same hand ‘John Charles Johnston’, and with the gilt back mark of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50213

BAUER, Carl Johann Sigmund, (1780-1857)

Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe ‘The world with its inhabitants’

[Nuremberg : Bauer, c. 1830]. Concertina paper strip of vignettes of the races of the world, each vignette 55 x 45 mm, coloured by hand, the illustrations cut into sections and laid on an early leaf, perhaps from a scrapbook, with captions in German, including inhabitants from Greenland, Canada, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, China, Kamchatka, Van …

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# 47232

FREEMAN BROTHERS

Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman. Sydney, c.1855.

Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 58 mm (sight); in a square brass mat with arch-top window; housed in a full leather case with the gilt-stamped crest of the photographers ‘FREEMAN BROTHERS / SYDNEY’ to verso, and with two working brass clasps; the daguerreotype is in excellent condition (a few specks of dust underneath …

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# 48761

SYDNEY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

“Building Allotments” timber yard with supervisor and workers. Sydney, c.1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 61 x 101 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Sydney Photographic Company / 200 Pitt St / opposite Victoria Theatre / Views of all prominent buildings in city & suburbs / carte de Visite and larger sizes / Stereoscopic views’; a strong print with excellent clarity; the mount …

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# 40306

BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)

Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.

Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …

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