Drawings

AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL.
Original oil painting of a group of Australian Aborigines.
Probably Sydney, 1849.

Oil on board, 140 x 190 mm.; in very good condition, framed.

A haunting mid-nineteenth-century painting of an Aboriginal man standing in front of a group of Aboriginal...

Australian: $18,500 (Approx. US $11,844, Euro €9465) Quote ref.

DAPLYN, Alfred James.
Watercolour of Manly.
Sydney, circa, 1890.

Original watercolour on artist's paper, 250 x 180 mm.; some slight surface discolouration, signed lower left, laid down...

A charming watercolour by Charles Conder's teacher, depicting a Victorian lady artist at her easel on Manly Beach,...

Smith, pg 67-68.

Australian: $2100 (Approx. US $1344, Euro €1074) Quote ref.

GILBERT, George Alexander (attrib.).
Sketches of the Maribyrnong River...
Victoria, circa, 1850.

Pair of drawings, 165 x 255 mm. and 182 x 260 mm., both in pencil heightened in Chinese white; in fine condition,...

A pair of drawings of rural Victoria from the mid-nineteenth century attributed to George Gilbert.

George...

Australian: $3250 (Approx. US $2081, Euro €1663) Quote ref.

[KENNEDY] WINGATE, Thomas W.
In Memory of Unfortunate Individuals.
Albany Island Qld. circa, 1854.

Watercolour on paper, 252 x 352 mm.; a couple of spots, but in very good condition, framed.

A sensitive original watercolour depicting the memorial erected by Owen Stanley, Captain of the Rattlesnake, to...

Australian: $9750 (Approx. US $6242, Euro €4988) Quote ref.

PADMORE, G. (?).
Original watercolour of Mosman, Sydney.
Sydney, 1889.

Original watercolour, 185 x 280 mm.; a few light spots, otherwise in very good condition, signed and dated lower right.

Charming watercolour of Mosman, showing a cottage on the harbour foreshore, and a hint of the gabled roof of Oswald...

Australian: $3500 (Approx. US $2241, Euro €1791) Quote ref.

[PATAGONIAN GIANTS] ARTIST UNKNOWN.
A Representation of the Interview...
England, Eighteenth century. 0.

Watercolour on paper, 240 x 400 mm., with ms. title in ink on lower margin; minor embrowning, else very well preserved,...

An unsigned late-eighteenth-century watercolour of one of the most fascinating subjects in the history of...

Australian: $5500 (Approx. US $3521, Euro €2814) Quote ref.

RODIUS, Charles.
Portrait of Joseph Raphael.
Sydney, 1832.

Original drawing on paper, 250 x 185 mm., pencil, pastel and charcoal; signed and dated lower left: "Chas. Rodius...

This fine and strong portrait is of the Jewish convict Joseph Raphael (1785-1853). Raphael was transported for life and...

Australian: $24,500 (Approx. US $15,685, Euro €12,534) Quote ref.

ROWAN, Alexander.,
“Bertha as She Appeared". Sketch of an arriving immigrant chatting to a kangaroo.
London, 1881.

Ink sketch on paper, folded in half to 115 x 179mm.; in fine condition.

A charming and somewhat intriguing ink sketch of a young boy (girl?) chatting with a kangaroo, with two brolgas (then...

Australian: $585 (Approx. US $375, Euro €299) Quote ref.

ROWLANDSON, Thomas.
A Hulk at Sheerness.
London, n.d., but circa, 1800.

Watercolour, with pencil, ink & pen on paper, 215 x 343 mm.; laid down on card, signed lower left "Rowlandson".

A delightful watercolour by Rowlandson of an unusual subject: one of the notorious "hulks" or decommissioned vessels,...

Literature: F. Gordon Roe, 'Drawings by Rowlandson: Captain Bruce S. Ingram's Collection', pp. 85-91: 'Connoisseur', Dec. 1946 (illustrated). Provenance: Ingram Collection, sold Sothebys, London, February 1965.

Australian: $17,500 (Approx. US $11,204, Euro €8953) Quote ref.

SKETCHBOOK.
Nineteenth-century Artist's Sketchbook of Australian scenes.
Australia, various places, 1869.

Oblong quarto, 24 pages; slightly loose in original half calf sketchbook binding.

An attractive sketchbook containing thirteen pencil drawings and watercolours identified and dated between August and...

Australian: $2500 (Approx. US $1601, Euro €1279) Quote ref.