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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 …

  • Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    # 50098

    LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)

    Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    Etching, printed in brown ink, 25.2 x 17.6 cm (plate mark), 322 x 235 mm (paper), mounted at upper hinge to a backing card, old mount burn, light foxing, very good. Loosely enclosed, a contemporary printed caption announcing that the etching is printed exclusively for members of The Society of Print Connoisseurs, November 1946. Accompanied …

  • [POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection

    # 32776

    [POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection

    Collected in the 1970s by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Printed poster, 590 x 415 mm, introduction by Margaret Carnegie, essay by Geoffrey Bardon and catalogue verso. An important poster and catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Fine copy. Note: this is the only catalogue for the exhibition, …

  • Paddington charades

    # 50291

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Paddington charades

    Etching, 40 x 50.5 cm (plate line); 70 x 80 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned A/P lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, unframed. The published edition was 30 copies. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating a row of terrace houses with children and cat motifs. Provenance: The estate …

  • Jack and the giant (circa 1975)

    # 50290

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Jack and the giant (circa 1975)

    Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 20/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English fairy tale. Provenance: The …

  • To fetch a pail of water (circa 1975)

    # 50289

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    To fetch a pail of water (circa 1975)

    Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned A/P lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of very small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme. Jack …

  • Hickory hickory dock (circa 1975)

    # 50288

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Hickory hickory dock (circa 1975)

    Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), printed on Arches paper, titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 15/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English …

  • So many children (circa 1975)

    # 50287

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    So many children (circa 1975)

    Etching and aquatint, 39.5 x 50.5 cm (plate line); 59.5 x 69.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 9/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a …

  • Summer days - Colette

    # 50286

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Summer days – Colette

    Screenprint, 53 x 35 cm (image); 56.5 x 39 cm (sheet), numbered 48/75 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, titled lower centre, a couple of very small spots of foxing, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint inspired from his ‘Colette’ series, a series of works from the late 1970s inspired by Claudine schoolgirl novels …

  • Ding dong dell (circa 1975)

    # 50284

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Ding dong dell (circa 1975)

    Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 14/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme. Ding dong …

  • I love Tom Jones (1969)

    # 50283

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    I love Tom Jones (1969)

    Colour screenprint, 40 x 57 cm (plate line); 56 x 76 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned V15/25 lower left, signed and dated by Blackman in pencil lower right, blind stamp lower right which reads “Hand-printed in collaboration with the artist. Paddington Print Studio, Australia’, light handling creases, unframed. A fine large format …

  • Playtime (circa 1980)

    # 50281

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Playtime (circa 1980)

    Screenprint, 32 x 48 cm (image); 45.5 x 58 cm (sheet), titled lower centre and editioned lower left 57/100, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine and dynamically composed Blackman screenprint of children at play. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of …

  • Consequences of a successful French invasion

    # 50129

    GILLRAY, James (1756 - 1815)

    Consequences of a successful French invasion

    No. 1. Plate 1st.  “We come to recover your long lost liberties” – Scene. The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, March 1st 1798. Etching printed in sanguine, on paper watermarked 1794, 319 x 361 mm, trimmed to just within the plate line, to small chips lower edge (one detached and held in place with …

  • Europe's Gay Gateway. See wonderful Copenhagen via SAS

    # 19684

    LINDHARDT, Knud

    Europe’s Gay Gateway. See wonderful Copenhagen via SAS

    [Copenhagen : Scandinavian Airlines System, circa 1956]. Offset lithograph, 970 x 720 mm, printed lower left ‘Printed in Denmark – Interprint A/S Stosv 1860’, light handling marks, else fine. A fabulously kitsch 1950s travel poster for the Danish capital, designed by Knud Lindhardt. The poster was issued in two sheets in mirror image, of which …

  • [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, "Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti"

    # 50118

    [HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; WEBBER, John (1752-1793) (artist); BERNARD, Robert (1734-1777) (engraver)

    [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, “Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti”

    Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 110 x 207 mm; unmounted; verso with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; in good condition with an expected amount of very light creasing. Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des marais de …

  • Three figures

    # 50209

    BOYD, Hermia (1931 - 2000)

    Three figures

    Etching, 39 x 49 cm (plate line); 56 x 76 cm (sheet), signed in the image and dated ’71, untitled, editioned 13/30 lower right, signed by Hermia Boyd in pencil lower left, minor handling creases, unframed. A fine large format Hermia Boyd etching illustrating two crouched figures and one standing figure at the base of …