Prints

ARMYTAGE, James Charles.
Ballarat, Victoria [engraved by J. Saddler].
London, Virtue & Co., 1873.

Steel-engraving, 129 x 184 mm; mounted, fine.

A detailed and finely engraved view of Ballarat, from Edwin Carton Booth's Australia Illustrated.

Australian: $120 (Approx. US $110, Euro €80) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
A Deep One: Portrait of George Barrington.
Dublin, Walker, c. 1800.

Engraving, 172 x 144 mm.; creased and soiled to the left of image.

Rare Irish portrait of notorious pickpocket George Barrington, in disguise.

Convicted of felonry, Barrington was...

Not in Nan Kivell and Spence.

Australian: $650 (Approx. US $594, Euro €435) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
Portrait of George Barrington.
London, 1804- 1809.

Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm.; very good.

A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and...

Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 23.

Australian: $450 (Approx. US $412, Euro €301) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
Portrait of George Barrington.
Liverpool, Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, 1810.

Stippled engraving, 98 x 76 mm.; good.

Barrington's rollercoaster ride from notorious felon to "zealous" chief constable of Parramatta was well-documented by...

Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 23.

Australian: $450 (Approx. US $412, Euro €301) Quote ref.

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BERNABO, Paul.
Two fascinating broadsheets for his travelling zoo.
Germany?, circa, 1851.

Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.); a little marked but both very good.

Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being...

Australian: $4750 (Approx. US $4344, Euro €3181) Quote ref.

[BOTANICAL PLATE] ANONYMOUS.
Flowering plant.
Circa, 1840.

Coloured engraving, 224x138mm; fine.

English lithograph of a flowering plant.

Australian: $40 (Approx. US $37, Euro €27) Quote ref.

[BOTANY BAY] HEATH, William.
New Panorama. A Startling Interrogation.
London, T. McLean, 1829.

Handcoloured engraving, 300 x 410 mm.; in fine condition, framed.

A fine impression of the coloured issue of this rare cartoon, satirising the colony which at this time was desperately...

Reproduced (although not attributed, and misdated) by Jonathan King: 'The Other Side of the Coin: A Cartoon History of Australia', p. 23.

Australian: $9500 (Approx. US $8689, Euro €6361) Quote ref.

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BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (after).
HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail for anchoring...
London, Ackermann, 1852.

Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm.; framed.

A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly...

Australian: $14,500 (Approx. US $13,262, Euro €9709) Quote ref.

CARMICHAEL, J.
Sydney, N.S.Wales.
Sydney, circa, 1840.

Steal engraving, plate size 115 x 192 mm, mounted.

A rare engraving by John Carmichael, an engraver and etcher who served his apprenticeship in Edinburgh, Scotland....

Australian: $650 (Approx. US $594, Euro €435) Quote ref.

CHEVALIER, Nicholas.
Avoca River, Victoria.
London, 1874.

Handcoloured steel engraving, 212 x 269 mm; mounted.

From Australia Illustrated by Carton Booth.

Australian: $50 (Approx. US $46, Euro €33) Quote ref.