Fine Art

  • A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    # 46516

    Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]

    A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …

    GBP £6,500 Read more
  • Sturt's Desert Pea, 1925

    # 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 …

    $22,000.00 AUD Read more
  • Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.

    # 43634

    Photographer unknown.

    Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.

    Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …

    $11,000.00 AUD Read more
  • Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885

    # 42818

    PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)

    Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885

    Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …

    $5,500.00 AUD Read more
  • [FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women's films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women's Group.

    # 46329

    [BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]

    [FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.

    Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …

    $500.00 AUD Read more
  • Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.

    # 46152

    DURYEA, Townsend, junior

    Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.

    Four albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 161 x 103 mm (mounts); rectos all with the embossed silver imprint of ‘T. Duryea, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; to the verso of one is a dedication inscription in ink written by the sitter which has been scratched out (possibly by a jealous later partner?), of which we …

    $220.00 AUD Read more
  • Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

    # 43442

    McLACHLAN, Phyllis (1905 - 1998)

    Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

    Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 334 x 254 mm, signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan 23’ lower right; in very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A stunning original watercolour from the artist’s estate. Painted when McLachlan was just 18, it exemplifies her innate sense of …

    $4,500.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.

    # 45903

    SWISS STUDIOS

    Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, oval Paris Panel format, 190 x 140 mm, on the original card mount with the blind stamp of Swiss Studios, Sydney; in superb condition, with the original tissue guard preserved (lightly foxed) and still housed in the studio’s green card portfolio, 310 x 235 mm (sunned at edges). Ada Emily Evans …

    $1,650.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Brisbane, circa 1895.

    # 45869

    MATHEWSON & CO.

    Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Brisbane, circa 1895.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 108 mm (mount); recto with the imprint in silver of ‘Mathewson & Co., Next Royal Bank only, Brisbane’; both the print and the mount are in good condition.

    $45.00 AUD Read more
  • Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.

    # 29301

    [WARNER BROS.] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]

    Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.

    [Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., circa 1937]. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph, 175 x 125 mm, inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress ‘Sincerely, Marcia Ralston’; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston – winner of a Miss Australia contest – was one of a small number …

    $180.00 AUD Read more
  • Two photographic portraits of Australian actress and singer Ethel Haydon (later Mrs. George Robey), taken in London, 1895 or 1896.

    # 25465

    [HAYDON, Ethel, 1876-1954]; ELLIS, Alfred (1854-1930) (photographer)

    Two photographic portraits of Australian actress and singer Ethel Haydon (later Mrs. George Robey), taken in London, 1895 or 1896.

    [London : s.n., 1895-96]. Two printing-out paper print photographs, each 150 x 105 mm, laid down on a late nineteenth century album page with owner’s identifying caption ‘Ethel Haydon’ in white ink; both prints are embossed ‘Alfred Ellis Photographer / Copyright; the three-quarter length portrait on the left is beautifully lit and shows off her …

    $75.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of Constance May Richmond, age 13 years. Adelaide, 1915.

    # 46160

    McNEILL, Frank A.

    Studio portrait of Constance May Richmond, age 13 years. Adelaide, 1915.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, postcard format 132 x 83 mm, verso with imprint of ‘Frank A. McNeill Studios, Adelaide & Port’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Constance May Richmond, age 13 years / 1915’; superb condition. Quite simply one of the finest Australian portraits of this period that we …

    $200.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.

    # 43102

    GREENFELD, M. W. (Maximilian William)

    Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘The Royal Studio, M. W. Greenfeld, Photographer, Artist in Oil, Water Colors & Crayons. 328, George Street, Sydney’, incorporating a vignette illustration of an artist’s palette; the print has some light surface rubbing in the upper section, …

    $90.00 AUD Read more
  • Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.

    # 45623

    ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)

    Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …

    $200.00 AUD Read more
  • Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].

    # 46361

    [Photographer unknown]

    Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].

    [Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …

    $900.00 AUD Read more
  • The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    # 46296

    DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter

    The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.

    $240.00 AUD Read more

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