Fine Art

  • Titania as Bride

    # 50874

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Titania as Bride

    Etching, 19.5 x 15 cm (plate line); 40 x 30 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof, the published edition was 60 copies), signed by Blackman lower right, unframed. A fine, lyrical Blackman etching printed in colour. Titania is the powerful, strong-willed Queen of the Fairies and wife of King Oberon in Shakespeare’s A …

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  • David Rankin : the New York years (deluxe edition, with original signed etching)

    # 50831

    ASHTON, Dore

    David Rankin : the New York years (deluxe edition, with original signed etching)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, linen bound boards in matching slipcase, ribbon drawer, pp. 288, illustrated. The deluxe edition printed in an edition of 40 copies, specially bound, accompanied by an original signed etching presented loose, the etching numbered AP 2/10. Fine copy. This book provides illuminating insights into the development of the numerous themes …

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  • Postcards From Asia

    # 50810

    HAZELWOOD, Art

    Postcards From Asia

    [San Francisco : the artist, circa 2000]. Quarto, concertina style bound artist’s book, papered boards, containing 14 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 25. Created in a small edition with prints made for Hazelwood’s  Walking up and down in Asia series (2000), with different prints included in each …

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  • Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic

    # 50750

    SHEAD, Garry (1942- )

    Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic

    Darwin : Basil Hall Editions, 2003. Nine etchings, each 150 x 220 mm, hand-printed by Natasha Rowell. Edition of 50; housed in a purpose-built ceramic box (290 x 215 x 60 mm); the etchings join up in the fashion of a puzzle to complete Shead’s image, Petit Testament; each of the nine etchings is signed verso, …

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  • Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    # 49803

    EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta

    Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …

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  • Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    # 50593

    [Photographer unknown].

    Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each half of the image approximately 72 x 75 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 83 x 173 mm; the mount has a fully contemporary inscription in ink in the right margin: ‘McIntire Blacks’; verso blank; the print and mount are in very good condition. The Macintyre River, which …

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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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  • A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    # 50406

    DE PINNA, Prof. Francis "Frank"

    A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    Large format silver albumen print, 230 x 285 mm, on photographer’s studio mount of brown card with gilt decorative border and imprint: ‘Prof. de Pinna / Melb.’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Relatively little is known about Prof. Francis “Frank” de Pinna, artist, musician and photographer (1864-1914), although he was …

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  • 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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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50408

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …

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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50409

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …

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  • [JEFFREY SMART] Evening. Lino Cut by Jeff Smart.

    # 50668

    SMART, Jeffrey (1921-2013)

    [JEFFREY SMART] Evening. Lino Cut by Jeff Smart.

    Full-page offset printed illustration, page 19 in: The Torch : Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XXI, December, 1941. Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1941. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (some light marks and edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and black (silverfished, light stains, light warping …

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  • Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.

    # 50411

    LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)

    Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.

    Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …

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  • Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

    # 50594

    BATCHELDER & CO.

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

    Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …

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  • Portrait of J. J. Casey and another gentleman. Sydney, 1882.

    # 50392

    BOYD, Thomas H.

    Portrait of J. J. Casey and another gentleman. Sydney, 1882.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 100 mm; verso of mount imprinted Boyd San Francisco Palace of Art 250 & 252 George Street, Sydney, and with an inscription (presumably) by one of the two sitters: ‘J. J. Casey & [xxxx], May 1882’; the albumen print is in superb condition; the mount is clean …

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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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