Graphics

  • Country breakfast circa 1974

    # 50207

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Country breakfast circa 1974

    Screenprint, 47 x 37 cm (image); 58 x 45 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (the edition was 100 copies)  Blackman studio stamp lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint of the bounty of a breakfast table. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of the …

  • My Mother's Garden - Colette

    # 50188

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    My Mother’s Garden – Colette

    Screenprint, 53 x 35 cm (image); 56.5 x 39 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (the published edition was 75 copies), signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, two very small tears to left margin, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint inspired from his ‘Colette’ series, a series of works from the late 1970s inspired by Claudine …

  • Paddington Cricket

    # 50187

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Paddington Cricket

    Screenprint, 42 x 35 cm (image); 58 x 45 cm (sheet), titled lower centre and editioned lower left 67/100, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint of two children and their dog playing cricket in Paddington streets, Sydney. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 …

  • Sleeping beauty

    # 50185

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Sleeping beauty

    Etching, 24 x 24 cm (plate line); 60 x 40 cm (sheet), edition A/P (artist’s proof, the published edition was 25 copies), signed by Blackman lower right, blind stamp for Port Jackson Press lower right, unframed. A fine, lyrical Blackman etching printed in colour. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) …

  • Titania as Bride

    # 50182

    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 …

  • Home work

    # 50181

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Home work

    Screenprint, 48 x 30 cm (image); 58 x 45.5 cm (sheet), titled lower centre and editioned lower left 11/100, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint of a girl sitting at home facing her home work, her cat keeping her company. Provenance: The estate of the late …

  • Tumbling

    # 50180

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Tumbling

    Etching, 14.5 x 14.5 cm (plate line, circular); 22 x 30 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (the published edition was 30 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower centre, unframed. A fine Blackman etching printed in colour. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of the late Felicity …

  • Orpheus

    # 50179

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Orpheus

    Etching and aquatint, 14.5 x 19.5 cm (plate line); 50 x 40 cm (sheet), untitled, editioned A/P lower left, signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a small spot of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine Blackman etching of the Greek demigod Orpheus with his lyre. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman …

  • Vase and face

    # 50178

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Vase and face

    Etching, 25 x 19.5 cm (plate line); 40 x 40 cm (sheet), titled lower centre, edition W/P (working proof, the published edition was 80 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing to outer margins, unframed. A fine Blackman etching printed in two colours. Provenance: The estate of …

  • Girl with flowers

    # 50176

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Girl with flowers

    Etching and aquatint, 24 x 24 cm (plate line, circular); 35 x 30 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few inky fingermarks, printer’s colour notes in pencil lower margin, unframed.   Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of …

  • [The Rose Almanack. Souvenir for 1860]

    # 50154

    [ROCK BROTHERS & PAYNE]

    [The Rose Almanack. Souvenir for 1860]

    [London : Rock Brothers & Payne (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler), 1859]. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die-cut in the shape of a rose; diameter when opened 240 mm, folding to 120 x 70 mm; the two end panels of the almanac have discreet old tape repairs where the edges had previously separated …

  • View of East Maitland

    # 50138

    TERRY, Frederick Charles, (1825 - 1869)

    View of East Maitland

    Steel engraving, vignette approximately 110 x 150 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Landscape scenery : illustrating Sydney, and Port Jackson, New South Wales, Sydney : Sands &​ Kenny ; London : Sands &​ Son, 1855. (Ferguson 15440a).    

  • Government House from the Botanical Gardens. [1853]

    # 50136

    TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY

    Government House from the Botanical Gardens. [1853]

    Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (folded in half), paper watermarked ‘Sands & Kenny’, steel engraving in black ink 110 x 144 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; second side with wet stamp of Sydney publisher and stationer J.R. Clarke; the letter paper is unused …

  • Teeming with Life. John Olsen : his complete graphics 1957 – 2023

    # 50122

    OLSEN, John; McGREGOR, Ken; and MAKIN, Jeffrey.

    Teeming with Life. John Olsen : his complete graphics 1957 – 2023

    Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2023. Third edition (the definitive, revised edition). Folio, black laminated boards with Olsen image to front, illustrated endpapers, pp. 320, illustrated in colour, a fine copy. Catalogue raisonne of Olsen’s prodigious graphic output. The third edition, revised, the final and most comprehensive survey of Olsen’s graphic output, covering his entire oeuvre. …

  • Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    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 …

  • [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    # 34804

    TULLOCH, David

    [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …