Graphics
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# 47089
GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)
The Birds of Australia (complete set)
London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …
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# 47128
TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine
Night fall in the ti-tree
Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …
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# 47075
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Past unfolded 1986
Gouache on card, 175 x 125 mm (image), with additional pencil drawing and title in lower margin, 280 x 180 mm (card), inscribed lower margin ‘Past Unfolded 1986’, floating mount, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original painting by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s …
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# 46721
Robert ASHTON (1950- )
Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.
[Ladakh and Melbourne : the artist, 2013]. Complete suite of twelve copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 5; 290 x 390 mm (plate size), 395 x 485 mm (sheet size); all titled and dated 2013 by the artist lower left, and signed by the artist lower right in 2023; very fine, loosely housed in …
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# 46602
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Thieves’ kitchen
Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …
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# 46678
CARMICHAEL, John (1803-1857)
Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839
Original etching and engraving, 177 x 357 mm (plate line), mount burn, engraved inscription lower left Drawn by J. A. Adamson Esq., engraved inscription lower right Eng.d by J. Carmichael. for R.Clint, manuscript inscription lower centre in Tate Adams’ hand Melbourne 1839. Printed from the original plate in an edition of 100. No. 85 / …
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# 46542
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
VII (Sculptural lithograph)
Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …
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# 15277
MENARD, Romuald George (painter); THIERRY FRÈRES; SABATIER, Léon Jean Baptiste (lithographers)
Vue de Sydney et de l’entree de la Riviere de Paramatta (panorama in two sections)
Two plates, forming a continuous panorama, from: Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 … atlas pittoresque. [Paris : Gide, 1841]. Tinted lithographs, 170 x 420 mm; pale foxing to the margins of the first plate, else in fine condition. Custom framed in museum timber, measures 422 x 1138 mm. The voyage …
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![[POSTER] Laienkunst](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/2011_DSFB_1126-226x300.jpg)
# 46682
FRITZSCHE, Ulrich
[POSTER] Laienkunst
Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a. Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame). A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by …
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# 46278
Robert ASHTON (1950- )
Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.
[Melbourne : the artist, 1987]. Complete suite of nineteen copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 10; 195 x 295 mm (plate size), 370 x 460 mm (sheet size); all untitled, but signed and dated in the plate l.r. ‘Robert Ashton 1987’, and numbered at l.l. 1/10 (4), 2/10 (3), 3/10 (2), 4/10 (2), 5/10 …
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# 46516
Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]
A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.
London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …
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# 38842
PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)
Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925
Woodcut, printed in black ink from one block, coloured by hand, measuring 184 x 248 mm (image), signed in the image lower left M. P., signed in pencil lower right Margaret Preston, titled lower left 15 Proof Sturt’s Desert Pea etc., framed in black timber. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. This striking modernist woodcut features …
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![[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women's films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women's Group.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0698-1-300x300.jpg)
# 46329
[BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]
[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.
Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …
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![[TICHBORNE CASE] "Twenty Years After," Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_DSFB_6737-300x300.jpg)
# 45880
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …
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# 46163
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Market forces
Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, folding card portfolio with original signed and numbered screenprint on front panel, containing four signed and numbered sugar lift etchings and four cibachrome prints, the folio also signed and numbered and limited to 35 copies. Leti’s visual response to the Queen Victoria Market. A single copy recorded in Australian …
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# 45969
TRAILL, Jessie Constance Alicia (1881 - 1967)
Ex Libris C. W. H. Barnes circa 1934
Etching on paper, 110 x 55 mm (trimmed to plate line), undesignated impression, signed in the image lower right, framed in museum timber, measuring 53 x 44 cms. A fine and rare etching by noted Australian printmaker Jessie Traill commissioned as an ex lib’s bookplate and featuring an atmospheric landscape. Another example is held in …