Fine Art

# 40078

FREEMAN & PROUT

Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark’s, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King’s School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; signed in ink by the sitter ‘Yrs. faithfully Geo: F: Macarthur’; verso with the imprint of ‘Freeman & Prout, Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales & His Excellency the Governor, Sydney’; Rare portrait photograph – signed – of the …

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# 50313

DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)

[SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); verso blank (i.e. without photographer’s imprint); both the print and the mount are in very good condition. New South Wales Parliament House is the oldest public building in continual use in Australia, having formerly been the northern wing of Governor Macquarie’s Rum Hospital, completed …

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# 50371

[NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

[BLUE MOUNTAINS] View in the Grose Valley, New South Wales, c.1890.

Large format albumen print photograph, 230 x 280 mm, captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Valley of the Gross NSW’; in fine condition, unmounted.

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# 44821

MAGUIRE, H. J.

Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, c.1885.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘Maguire / Photographer, 195 George Street, Sydney’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. Although these two gentlemen are unidentified, there can be no doubt as to their professional roles. Public reciting was something of a …

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# 45560

LAMARTINIERE, Alexander Henry

Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …

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# 41553

TUTTLE & CO.

Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, c.1884.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …

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# 50373

KERRY, Charles

Circular Quay on a holiday. Sydney, c.1895

Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in the negative at lower left ‘1682. Circular Quay on a holiday’, and with the blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo., 308 Geo. St. Sydney Copyright’; mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with manuscript caption to lower margin; in fine condition; verso …

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# 50372

[NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

Three large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, with captions in the negative; one print with a couple of nicks to top edge, otherwise all in fine condition, unmounted.

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# 45624

EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS

Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.

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# 46280

BOAKE, Barcroft Capel

Studio portrait of Rev. H. A. Palmer, incumbent of Petersham, taken shortly before his death. Sydney, 1879.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘B. Boake / Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. 353 George Street [wet-stamped over 530 George Street] Sydney’, and fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter: ‘Revd. Mr. Palmer. Sydney, NSW 1879’; both the print and mount are …

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# 14831

NEWMAN, John Hubert

Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (107 x 64 mm, mount; 60 x 48 mm, oval image); inscribed beneath image in ink in a contemporary hand ‘Rev. W. Curnow’; recto and verso with imprint of J.H. Newman, 53 South Head Road, Sydney; recto with light staining and rubbing. Wesleyan Methodist clergyman and journalist William Curnow …

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# 43366

[Photographer unknown].

Daguerreotype of a mother and young child, late 1850s.

[UK or Australia : s.n., 1855-59]. Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 90 x 66 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat, housed in a half case with embossed floral design; the daguerreotype has a slight tarnish halo, and some tiny mould spiders beneath the cover glass, but is otherwise in very good condition – an …

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# 43417

Photographer unknown

Ambrotype of two adolescent sisters, c.1860.

[USA : s.n., c.1860]. Quarter-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 93 x 67 mm (sight), in an elliptical brass mat, housed in a full leather case with embossed floral design, with two working brass claps; the ambrotype is in fine condition, the case is lightly marked.

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# 43412

[Photographer unknown].

Ambrotype of a young girl seated in a chair, her hands clasped. Early 1860s.

[USA : s.n., 1860-65]. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 66 x 55 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass matt, housed in full leather case with embossed geometric design, working brass clasp; both the ambrotype and case are in fine condition.

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# 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 …

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Reserved
# 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, …

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