Prints
Savage of New Caledonia Throwing a Dart.
London: circa 1800. Engraving. 250 x 200mm, mounted. A fine portrait of a New Caledonian man by Piron. This image was first published in Labillardière's account of the D'Entrecasteaux expedition. Piron was the official artist on the expedition, in which Australia was circumnavigated twice, and the islands surrounding investigated for.....
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #1600211
Vue du Village de Nama (Vanikoro).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Lithographed view, 218 x 297mm., mounted. The voyage of the Favorite under Laplace's command was aimed at re-establishing French influence over Indo-China and the Pacific as well as gathering detailed trading information, hydrographic data and natural history specimans. Although it was a difficult voyage, scientifically it.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #2802460
Rivière de Derwent (Van Diemen).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Aquatint view, 222 x 320 mm.; mounted. A fine view of the Derwent River, one of only two Tasmanian illustrations published from the La Place voyage. The Favorite arrived in Hobart on 11 July 1831, both ship and crew in a weakened condition. Their stay was.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #2112730
Alarming Prospect The Single Ladies off to the Diggings.
London: 1853. Handcoloured engraving, 210 x 305 mm. on wove paper, mounted. A wonderful satirical mid-nineteenth century cartoon portraying young, single and desirable ladies abandoning generous marriage proposals in favour of fortune seeking on the goldfields. The Prints and Printmaking in Australia and the Pacific online database confirms that the.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4201764
Vue De La Ville De Sydney…
Paris: 1814. Handcoloured engraving, 140 x 250mm, mounted, with caption letterpress laid down. This hand coloured engraved view is a smaller rendition of the engraving by Milbert, which appeared in Peron's Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes….. Paris 1807. It is the view seen from Nicholas Baudin's camp in 1802.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107358
Ansicht von Sidney von der Südseite, und der Mündung des Parramatta Flusses.
probably Weimar: circa 1808.
Rare German version of the Lesueur Sydney view
Single sheet, 340 x 222 mm., laid paper, featuring an engraved view of Sydney Cove, slight browning, very good. A good view of Sydney Cove closely based on the original engraving in the official publication of the Baudin.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #2909760
Reed Warbler
London: J.H. Bohte, 1822. Handcoloured engraving, 289 x210mm.; mounted. The Reed Warbler is an interesting bird, found down Eastern Australia to Victoria and Tasmania, but coming and going mysteriously in the southern parts of its habitat. Besides being a migrant, the Reed Warbler, as its name indicates, is a merry.....
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #4111695
White-eared Honey-eater.
London: J.H. Bohte, 1838.
Australia's first professional artist
Engraved plate with contemporary handcolouring, 280 x210mm. The graceful Sydney honey-eater engraved by Australia's first professional artist John Lewin, who arrived in the colony in 1800 and established himself as our first natural history illustrator. Aside from being Australia's first natural history.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #4312700
Hobart Town from the Wharf.
Hobart: M. & N. Hanhart, circa 1857.
From the personal collection of John Alexander Ferguson
Tinted lithograph measuring 380 x 550 mm., mounted. Attractive Hobart view with good view of the township and wharves during the middle nineteenth-century. Provenance: from the collection of he great Australian bibliographer, John Alexander Ferguson.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3012944
Bathurst Cataract, on the River Apsley.
London: J. Souter, November 1824.
Idealised Australian parkland view
Hand-coloured aquatint, 265 x 355 mm., mounted. An attractive plate from the Joseph Lycett's Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Dieman's Land, published in London in 1825 and a landmark in the development of Australian illustrated books. Lycett.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4007917
Alexander Macleay.
London: for the Linnean Society, 1845. Engraving, 243 x 300 mm. (plate size). Fine engraved portrait of Alexander Macleay, after the oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence commissioned by the Linnean Society and displayed in their prestigious portrait gallery of eminent naturalists at Burlington House, London. Macleay was Secretary of.....
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #3111101
Portrait of Fernand Magellan
Np: circa 1680. Woodcut engraving, 180 x 130 mm. From Isaac Bullart's "Académie des Sciences et des Arts…" (François Foppens: Brussels, 1682 & 1695), by the printmaker Nicolas de L'Armessin (signed bottom right). Magellan's expedition was the first to cross the Pacific and the first circumnavigation of the globe. The.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #3002907
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New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove No. 1 [and] No. 2.
London: John Booth Duke Street Portland Place, 4 June 1810.
The first panoramic views of Sydney to be exhibited
Pair of uncoloured aquatints joined as a panorama as intended, 340 x 980 mm; in original bird's-eye maple frame. A rare panoramic view of Sydney Harbour. John Eyre arrived in New.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4202818
The Beacon, Exmouth.
circa 1830.
Martens before the Beagle
Lithograph, 150 x 245 mm., Very rare indeed: an example of the work being done by Conrad Martens before he sailed on the Beagle. Any art relating to this early part of his career is most uncommon. Conrad Martens (1801-1878), perhaps the best known.....
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #4403333
Captain Cook.
Paris: chez Rosselin, circa 1837. Lithograph, 240 x 170 mm. (sheet size). A fine and elegant lithograph of Captain James Cook in his naval uniform looking to the left.
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4504221
Viscount Melbourne.
London: Hodgson & Graves, 1839.
Melbourne: the man
Mezzotint measuring 305 x 230 mm. (plate size). A beautifully executed mezzotint portrait of William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne, after whom the capital city of Victoria was named in 1837. Although printed in 1839, at the height of Melbourne's career and while.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4007937
Captain James Cook.
London: Alex Hogg., n.d., but circa 1784.
Re-engraved for Anderson
Engraving, 380 x 235 mm. Naïve oval portrait prepared as frontispiece for Anderson's New, Authentic and Complete Collection (1784-86). The scroll below gives birth and death information and names of the ships on each voyage.
Price (AUD):
$525.00
Ref: #3007742
Omai, A Native of Ulaietea.
London: Publish'd according to Act of Parlt. 25th October 1774.
The ideal image of the "Noble Savage"
Etching and stipple engraving, 540 x 330 mm.; framed. A wonderful full-length portrait of Omai (also known as "Mai"), the Tahitian who was seen as an outstanding example of Rousseau's noble savage when.....
Price (AUD):
$11,500.00
Ref: #3904130
Vulpine Opossum.
London: John Stockdale, 31 August, 1789.
After a drawing by Latham
Original engraving, 260 x 190 mm. Mounted. Marvellous image of the "Vulpine Opossum" after an original drawing by Latham. This print is taken from Governor Phillip's Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay published by Stockdale in late 1789.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #2908538
Britannia crowns Captain Cook, flanked by the Gods of Empire.
London: 53 High Holborn, circa 1780.
Barbarously murdered by a lesser James Cook
Engraved plate, 327 x 210mm. (plate size), fine. The mythology of discovery and empire. The full caption title reads: "Britannia seated on an eminence, with a lion at her feet. Neptune introduces Captain Cook, whom she instantly.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4109644
Sir Hugh Palliser Bart.
London: published by the artist, 1787.
Cook's patron
Mezzotint three-quarter length portrait, trimmed close to the plate mark; mounted. Rare and impressive mezzotint portrait of one of Cook's great friends and champions. Like Cook a Yorkshireman, Palliser, who became governor of Newfoundland in 1764, encouraged Cook to pursue his charting.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4005780
Captn. W. E. Parry. R.N. Commander of the Polar Expedition 1819-20.
London: Published by the executors of the late James Asperne, 1821. Stipple engraving, 145 x 220 mm., gently creased at one corner, very good. Contemporary engraved portrait of the great Arctic explorer and Australian settler. Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer who also served.....
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4003696
Stypandra Frutescens. Flowering Plant.
London: 1834. Handcoloured lithograph; mounted, printed size approx 240 x 160mm. This lithograph of an Australian plant is taken from Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. Paxton's note on the plant commented that it 'is a very distinct species of stypandra… raised from New Holland seeds.....
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #1600593
Oui-ré-kine.
Paris: circa, 1807.
Sailed to Bass Strait on the Lady Nelson with James Grant.
Engraved portrait, 305 x 250 mm. mounted. A beautiful portrait by Nicholas-Martin Petit from the first voyage account, depicting Oui-ré-kine (Wárrgan/Worogan), a young woman from Port Jackson who, together with her husband Yeranibe (Euranabie), had sailed.....
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4504988