Paintings & Drawings
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# 50880
BATTARBEE, Rex (1893 - 1973)
Fashion, 1924
Pen and ink on artist’s board, 200 x 65 mm (image), 255 x 115 mm (card), tissue guard, unsigned, verso with the artist’s design label ‘R. E. Battarbee, Fashion Artist, Illustrator & Designer, 2nd Floor, 372 Flinders Lane’, authenticated by the artist’s daughter Gayle Quarmby. An exquisite small pen and ink by Australian artist Rex …
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# 42458
[HARVEY, William, 1752-1807]
Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.
Watercolour on paper, 247 x 227 mm, in an early gilded wood and gesso frame, inscribed verso Midshipman Hardy [sic] of Ct. Cook’s Ship Discovery 1779. Exhibited: Endeavour voyage: the untold stories of Cook and the First Australians. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2 June 2020 – 26 April 2021. Reference: Coates, Ian (editor). Endeavour voyage, the …
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# 47061
HARDY, Thomas
Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 20.5 cm (sight), signed by the artist l.r.; in fine condition, housed in a nineteenth-century bird’s-eye maple frame with original cover glass; [ACCOMPANIED BY] the embroidered silk waistcoat worn by Skinner in the portrait, approx. 50 x 40 cm (irregular), remarkably well preserved. Souvenirs of a young Englishman’s …
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# 49803
EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta
Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).
An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …
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# 46852
McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)
Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)
[Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …
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# 50491
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Mrs. Fraser’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 27 x 25.5 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil centre right. A study, or abstracted variation for the major the 1947 painting of Mrs Fraser, a theme Nolan would return to in the 1960s and 70s. ‘A female figure representing a certain Mrs Fraser … has the …
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# 50490
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Inferno’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 20 x 20 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil lower right. A study for the major nine panel work ‘Inferno’ currently on long term loan from the The Estate of Lady Nolan to the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the …
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# 48448
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Bird on a lamp post
Watercolour on card, 158 x 208 mm, verso blank, unsigned. An original artwork by Blackman of a bird on a lamp post, the red roof of a warehouse in the lower portion. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and …
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# 50184
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
The cat’s plant
Etching and aquatint, 20 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 41 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof, the published edition was an edition of 30 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few light spots of foxing, unframed. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The …
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# 49132
WHITE, Mary
“Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)
Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …
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# 20851
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry Augustus Thompson, 1853. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world in two hemispheres, with detailed decorative border vignettes and original hand colour. …
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# 20853
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry A[ugustus] Thompson, December 7th 1855. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world on Mercator’s projection, with detailed decorative border and original hand …
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# 50049
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #2
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50048
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #1
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50052
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #5
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50051
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #4
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.