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# 32313
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
Scarlet Creeper
Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Scarlet Creeper from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …
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# 32314
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
Reed Warbler
Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Reed Warbler from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …
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# 22452
GELLERT, Leon (1892-1977); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The Isle of San
A phantasy by Leon Gellert with five original etchings by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1919. Folio, quarter vellum over green cloth, pp 139, with initials printed in red, frontispiece portrait after an etching by Lindsay, five original large etchings with lettered tissue-guards by Norman Lindsay, each etching signed in full in pencil; …
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# 37996
[MEUX'S BREWERY CO. LTD.]
[BEER] Meux’s Original London Stout. Established 1764.
… Facsimile of bottle label. [London : Meux’s Brewery Co. Ltd.], [ca. 1910?]. Large chromolithographic poster, 100 x 62 cm, linen-backed and folding to 25 x 15.5 cm (a few minor tears at junctions of folds, otherwise superb); contained in the original royal blue buckram portfolio, 26.2 x 16.7 cm (some light staining). Meux’s Brewery …
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# 38269
MARCUS WARD & CO.
Christmas card, circa 1880.
[Belfast : Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd., circa 1880]. Gilt-edged card, 96 x 128 mm, chromolithographic illustration, with the word ‘Christmas’ and border in gold; imprint of ‘Marcus Ward & Co., Limited’ to lower margin recto; addressed to ‘Mr. & Mrs. Thomson’ from ‘Mr. & Mrs. McCardel’; verso blank; in very good condition. From an …
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# 37932
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Ned Kelly with carcass, 1971 (blue crayon)
Original etching printed in sepia from Nolan’s ‘Dust’ series, 255 x 300 mm, print on sheet measuring 640 x 480 mm, the etching surrounded by a hand-drawn Ned Kelly Helmet in light and dark blue chalks, signed with Nolan’s backward ‘N’. Framed in museum timber frame measuring 990 x 810 mm. An unique work incorporating …
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# 37933
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Ned Kelly with carcass, 1971 (orange crayon)
Original etching printed in sepia from Nolan’s ‘Dust’ series, 255 x 300 mm, print on sheet measuring 640 x 480 mm, the etching surrounded by a hand drawn Ned Kelly Helmet in orange and yellow chalks, signed with Nolan’s backward ‘N’. Framed in museum timber frame measuring 990 x 810 mm. An unique work incorporating …
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# 29930
EMANUEL, Frank Lewis (1865-1948)
Sidney Long, Pres. Australian Soc. of Painter-Etchers
Etching on japan vellum, circa 1925, 152 x 90 mm (plate line); 265 x 170 mm (paper), titled lower centre, initialled lower right, lightly creased, a very good example. An intimate portrait of Sydney Long etched by his teacher Frank Emanuel. Long took up etching in his late forties, this rare print is inscribed by …
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# 36428
[SHEAD]. HARD, Lynn.
Australia suite. Drawings by Garry Shead
Sydney: ETT Imprint, 1998. Quarto, cloth bound boards, small mark lower board, 80pp. illustrated by Shead. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the artist, poet and binder, with an original signed etching loosely enclosed.
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# 35437
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Pearling in the Nor. West
[Perth] : The Western Mail, 1906. Postcard, 140 x 88 mm, recto illustrated by May Gibbs, verso with illustrated title banner, back divided in two, postally unused, a couple of corners creased, one with paper reinforcement verso. Very rare postcard designed by May Gibbs while working as a staff illustrator at the Western Australian periodical …
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# 35968
SHIRLOW, John (1869 - 1936)
The “Melbourne Set”. Etchings by John Shirlow
Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1920. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), cloth spine and rope tie, light foxing to endpapers, Foreword by John Shirlow, signed colophon, six original etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, tipped in, with captioned title labels, a fine copy. The list of plates are: Melbourne from the East …
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# 30224
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
A book of woodcuts. (Deluxe edition)
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, all edges uncut, unpaginated, signed woodcut frontispiece printed from colour blocks, foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further twenty original woodcuts tipped-in. The deluxe edition, limited to 35 copies, hand printed by Percy Green on Japanese vellum, the woodblocks hand printed by …
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# 35728
HUMPHRIES, Chris et al.
Monash University. 2nd year printmakers 1990
[Melbourne : Monash University, Department of Art and Design, 1992]. Quarto, gilt-lettered buckram, sixteen original intaglio and planographic graphics, each signed by the artist and limited to 23 numbered copies, glassine interleaved. A bound volume of original artworks from the second year printmakers at Monash. Identified artists include Susan Mitchell, Darren Patrich, Dominic White, Chris …
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# 34566
F. HUMPHRIS & SONS LTD. (Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia)
Mandarin Phosphates
Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia : F. Humphris & Sons Ltd., [after 1902, and probably before 1920]. Chromolithographed bottle label, 71 x 94 mm; a fine example. Frederina Humphris (née Gotte, 1841-1925), the widow of Edmund Humphris, continued her husband’s Jamestown enterprise, known as “The Emu Factory”, after his death in 1880. The Emu Factory …
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# 15593
Maker unknown.
Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization
[Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …
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# 22606
SPRING, Jessica
A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin’s dog
Tacoma [WA] : Springtide Press, 2009. Screenprinted broadside with hand colouring, 145 x 215 mm (image); 355 x 460 mm (sheet), with the printed quote from CHarles Darwin’s On the Origin if Species (1859) ‘I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on …