Graphics
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# 10384
NORTHFIELD, James (1887-1973) (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. Text continues “Australian National Publicity Association, Railway Building, Flinders St, Melbourne. No. 103. Photo Litho., McLarens, Melbourne.” A stunning travel poster of North Queensland …
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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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# 37846
TUCKER, Albert (1914 - 1999)
Antipodean head
Lithograph printed in colour, 245 x 245 mm, numbered lower left 20/100, signed and dated Tucker 81 lower right, framed with a floating mount in chocolate brown frame measuring 540 x 520 mm. A fine graphic by Tucker showing one of his most recognisable motifs, where the figure is integrated with the Australian landscape.
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# 43636
WATSON, Tommy (c. 1935 - 2017)
An original etching by Tommy Watson
Etching printed in colour, with hand painted detail, measures 250 x 180 mm (plate), limited to 50 numbered copies signed with his monogram ‘X’. Framed in white timber measuring 550 x 460 mm. Created by the artist for the deluxe edition of his 2010 monograph published by Macmillan Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ngayuku Ngura – …
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# 18052
WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987); FRANKFURT, Suzie; WARHOLA, Júlia
Wild Raspberries. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)
New York : the artist, 1959. Folio (445 mm tall), original fuchsia papered boards (faded and paper lost at spine, as usual), title sheet, pp [42], comprised of 18 single illustrated leaves (one enhanced with original watercolour), one double-page illustration and one sheet with text, interleaved with eight sheets of fuchsia tissue paper, as issued; …
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# 42731
MINSHULL & MEESON
Chester. A series of 12 etchings, illustrating chief points of interest in the city
Cover title : Chester : a collection of etchings. Chester : Minshull & Neeson, c.d. [c. 1895]. Folio (380 x 275 mm), gilt-lettered blue cloth (corners rubbed, light wear, patch of discolouration to lower board), patterned endpapers, previous owner’s wet stamp to endpaper, title page, and over a presentation inscription on a preliminary which is …
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# 42700
RACKHAM, Arthur
The Wendy Calendar by Arthur Rackham
London : Hodder & Stoughton [1911]. Thick card envelope (284 x 367 mm, some stains and edge wear), printed title and tipped-on colour plate by Rackham, containing The Wendy Calendar, consisting of six cards printed in colour, each card with a pasted on colour plate by Rackham and a small calendar for two months of …
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# 12032
COLUMBIA PICTURES [U.S.A.]
The Blonde Captive
[Los Angeles, California] : Columbia Pictures, [1932]. Group of seven monochrome lobby cards for the film The Blonde Captive (1932), each 280 x 355 mm, with different designs printed in sepia ink on light card, mild wear to some edges and corners and light toning, but overall a finely preserved group. “In 1928 the Australian …
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# 42708
MARTIN, Sue
A book of beetles
Artist’s book, card portfolio 23 x 18 cms, hand stamped linen bound boards, stringbound, 11 leaves of hand painted leaves with hand stamps of beetles, glassine sheets of text. Signed by the artist on the inner boards. A charming and shimmering artist’s book by the contemporary printmaker. Exhibited : Firestation Print Studio Artists Book Prize …
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# 42707
NEAL, Karen (1956 - )
Magpie Book
Artist’s book, card portfolio 280 x 200 x 15 mm, with a linocut on the cover, signed by the artist, titled and numbered 1 / 5, containing a 10 panel concertina panorama, each panel with a linocut illustration of a magpie. A simple and striking artist’s book by the Melbourne based contemporary printmaker. Exhibited : …
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# 42525
FEINT, Adrian (1894 - 1971)
Bookplate for E. York Seymour (1942)
Wood-engraving, printed in black ink, from one block, 8.9 x 7.0 cm (printed image), tipped on to a backing sheet.
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# 41502
AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP
Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Print Folio
Melbourne : Australian Print Workshop, 1991. Cloth covered clamshell box made by Ilme Simmul (a few marks), 80 x 59 cms, with title label, housing a title sheet and six original signed graphics by leading Australian artists. Limited to 85 numbered sets, the plates destroyed after printing. Occasional light handling marks, a few spots of …
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# 41989
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).
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# 41512
MOORE-JONES, Horace (1868 - 1922)
Sketches made at Anzac
during the occupation of that portion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces. By Sapper H. Moore-Jones N.Z.E.F. 1915. First Series [all published]. London : Hugh Rees Ltd., 1916. Original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth gatefold portfolio, 360 x 810 mm, edges rubbed and worn, splits along folds, housing ten large format reproductions of panoramic paintings …
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# 22652
ADLER, Carl (printer)
The Bouquet of Sydney
Hamburg : C. Adler, before 1868. Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, housed in the original gilt-printed envelope with a lithographed view of Sydney, lettered in gold, the view measuring 520 x 118 mm, the envelope 86 x 142 mm, a fine example. Adler’s Bouquet of Sydney, a highly ephemeral …
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# 23436
HAZELWOOD, Art
Into Iraq
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2010. Handmade artist’s book, boards with paper cover illustrated with a linocut, linocut title page, signed and editioned by the artist, 32 linocut illustrations (two are double page), a fine copy. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist. ‘At the beginning of the Iraq war it seemed like a …