Graphics
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# 44815
CONDER, Charles (1868 - 1909)
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition. At Buxton’s Rooms opened 17 August 1889. [Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell, 1889]. Engraving from original zinc plate measuring 140 x 83 mm (image) printed in black ink on laid paper measuring 245 x 150 mm. A proof impression of the front cover of the exhibition catalogue, designed by Charles …
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
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# 42710
STUERZL, Jennifer (1956 - )
River mangroves mud
[Brisbane : the artist, 2020]. Artist’s book, handbound by David Bedford in salvaged mangrove wood (with salvage permit reference numbers included), stitch binding by the artist, pp. [16], handprinted sheets with collage, concrete poem in manuscript by Jennifer Stuerzl inside upper board, manuscript map of the Brisbane River to lower board, a stunning book housed …
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# 44639
COUNIHAN, Noel et al.
Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio of lino-cuts
Melbourne : Popular Print Art Group, 1954. Quarto, lettered paper portfolio (a little edge-worn, the tipped-on Noel Counihan linocut on the front panel in fine condition), four sheets letterpress and fourteen original linocuts of the Eureka Rebellion by Ray Wenban, Noel Counihan, Pat O’Connor, Peter Miller, Ailsa O’Connor, Len Gale, Ernie McFarlane, Maurice Carter, Naomi …
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# 44893
W. BUTCHER & SONS LTD.
A kangaroo hunt
London : W. Butcher & Sons, [circa 1910]. Hand-coloured magic lantern glass slide (80 x 80 mm), originally issued in the series: Our Colonies. Chapter III. Australia (from the Primus Junior Lecturers’ Series, no. 742). The kangaroo hunting illustration is a violent and animated scene, with four mounted hunters and a fifth on foot, together with …
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# 35316
LETI, Bruno
Recorded movements in time. Eight silkscreen prints 1991.
Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, lettered wrappers with linocut design, stringbound, pp. 24, introduction by Bruno Leti, eight silkscreen prints made in collaboration with Larry Rawling. Limited to 35 copies plus 7 proofs (this is Artists Proof II). Two copies recorded in Australian libraries (State Library of Victoria, State Library of New South Wales)
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 33495
GILL, S. T. (Samuel Thomas) (1818-1880)
Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome.
[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …
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# 40880
[GILL, S. T.]
[The Melbourne Rose].
[The Melbourne Rose. Part II. Honour to the brave memory of John King, R. O’Hara Burke, William John Wills]. [London : Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg)]. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die cut in the shape of a rose (small loss to a couple of small pieces in the centre), without the …
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# 42660
[MORGAN, James Squire Woodward, 1886-1974)
Squire Morgan, Sydney printmaker, painter and photographer: a small archive of ephemera, including proof etchings, printing blocks, original photographs, and books from his studio.
Group of approximately 85 gelatin silver print photographs, 1940s-1960s; various dimensions up to 250 x 300 mm; mainly comprising Squire Morgan’s photographic reproductions of his own artworks, some mounted on card by the artist (frequent duplication), but also including outdoor scenes later used in artworks, and a significant portrait study of the artist at work …
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# 43861
[Anon.]
A chromolithographic birthday card. Australia, 1880s.
Embossed chromolithographic card, 125 x 55 mm, printed recto only; the text reads: ‘With best wishes for a happy birthday’; unused, in very good condition. Found in a distressed family photograph album presented by Alfred William Goddard (Ballarat 1857-1910 Prahran) to his second wife Sarah Jane (Fountain) (Ballarat 1858-1925 Richmond), in 1887.
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# 43162
SYME, Eveline Winifred (1888-1961)
The Duomo Steps, Siena, 1931
Linocut, printed in colour from four blocks on buff oriental laid tissue, 29.5 x 22.5 cm (sheet), 23.2 x 18.2 cm (printed image), signed and dated in pencil lower right, numbered 6/25 and titled in pencil lower left, framed. A charming modernist linocut by Eveline Syme of a group of people on the cathedral steps …
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# 10384
NORTHFIELD, James (1887-1973)c(artist)
Australia : Great Barrier Reef, Queensland
Particulars at government, shipping & travel offices. Melbourne : Australian National Publicity Association, [1930s]. Offset lithograph, 1030 x 630 mm, a few tears expertly conserved, professionally cleaned and laid on linen. A stunning travel poster of North Queensland by the acclaimed artist James Northfield. Another example is held in the National Library of Australia and …
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# 137
LASINIO, Carlo (1759 – 1838)
La caduta degli Angeli ribelli. La Chûte des Anges ribelles
[Affreschi celebri del XIV e XV secolo] Engraving 390 x 445mm Published in Florence, 1821 The central image in Laninio‘s engraving is St Michael the Archangel and the army of angels battling the rebel demons during Satan’s uprising as described in the book of Revelations. The Holy Father watches over this scene from Heaven while …
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# 41492
PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)
Mosman Bridge N.S.W.
Created circa 1927. Woodblock print on thin cream laid paper, hand coloured, 252 x 188 mm, signed in monogram in the image lower right, signed in pencil lower right. Framed. ‘Mosman Bridge, built up of a mosaic of clear, bright colour with a daring use of ngative space, creates intriguing ambiguities of perspective. The delicate calligraphy …
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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 …