Prints
"Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande."
circa 1830.
Aborigines of New Holland
Handcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good. Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, and may be the same as a similarly-sized woodcut of the...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4202850
Captain J. Cook.
London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822.
The illustrious persons series
Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3007570
Captn James Cook F.R.S
Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4007920
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The Death of Captain Cook [caption title].
Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm. Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007930
Sauvage de la Nouvelle-hollande avenant de combattre (Port Jackson).
Paris: Langlume, 1840. Single sheet measuring 305 x 222 mm., wove paper, lithograph. Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine, lithographed after a sketch by Jacques Arago, official artist of the expedition commanded by Louis de Freycinet. This portrait is stylistically similar to the work of Arago's predecessor Nicolas Petit...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3309879
Tamor des îles Carolines et sa femme, vus sur l'île Tinian.
Paris: circa 1822.
A timeless neoclassical depiction of the Caroline islands
Hand-coloured engraving, 240 x 320 mm (plate size). small paper repair at bottom margin else very good condition. A famous portrait of a man and woman of the Caroline islands, depicted in high neoclassical style. This engraving is derived...
Price (AUD):
$380.00
Ref: #3509162
Captain James Cook (proof copy).
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
Proof version of a Captain Cook portrait plate
Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;. Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3007744
Captain James Cook.
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
After the dance portrait
Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3007741
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: H. Humphrey, 4 July 1795.
Making fun of Sir Joseph Banks, who metamorphoses into a splendid butterfly
Hand coloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted and framed. The rare 1795 first issue of this splendid satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504783
Joseph Banks Esq.
London: W. Dickinson, 30 January 1774.
The classic portrait of Banks as a young man
Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed. In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4504653
Sir Jph. Banks (Voyageur-Naturaliste,) Président de la société royale…
Paris? circa 1824.
French portrait of Sir Joseph Banks
Stipple-engraved portrait, 204 x 120 mm. Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of Sir Joseph Banks by Ambrose Tardieu. Banks is shown wearing the star and garter' the comments that the image was based on the painting by Sir Thomas Phillips, and the borrowing...
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #4103466
Portrait of George Barrington.
London: 1804-, 1809.
Fine image of the famous pickpocket
Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm. A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and transported with the Third Fleet in 1791. Soon after his arrival in Sydney Cove, Barrington's "irreproachable conduct" led...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3002910
Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. & S.A.
London: Thos. Macklin, 20 October, 1792.
Earliest major portrait of Cook's biographer
Stipple engraving, 290 x 210 mm., An uncommon portrait of Cook's great first biographer, stipple-engraved by the great artist Bartolozzi, famous for his role in producing many of the engravings relating to Cook's third voyage, including a portrait...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4308580
Captain James Cook, F.R.S.
London: William Strahan & Cadell, 1777.
The Hodges portrait
Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm. Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3103115
Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande
Paris: 1807.
The cassowary
Handcoloured engraving, 160 x 230mm. A fine rendering of the Cassowary from the account of the Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific. The expedition's artist was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur who set out on Baudin's expedition as an assistant gunner, and it wasn't until mass desertions, including...
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3503646
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Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre de Witt…
Paris: 1807.
Coastal views of Northwestern Australia
Single sheet, 353 x 260 mm., wove paper, hand-coloured engraving. A charming set of coastal views on the western and northern coast of Australia after the original sketches by Lesueur. The first two coastal views depict stretches of the Champagny archipelago (present-day Champagny...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #2303029
Queen Adelaide.
London: Colnaghi, 1831.
The reigning queen for whom Adelaide was named
Engraved oval portrait, 29 x 24 mm. Sir William Beechey, well known English portrait painter, was elected A.R.A. in 1793. In the same year he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte which procured him the appointment of portrait painter...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3111081
Two fascinating broadsheets for his travelling zoo.
Germany? circa 1851.
Travelling menagerie including an Australian dingo
Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.). Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being exhibited, the Australian dingo makes a rather surprising inclusion. The 1840s and 1850s had witnessed a....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3706061
Le Capne. Jacques Cook. Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres
Paris: n.d., but circa 1778.
French version
Engraving, 240mm x 188mm. Fine French version of the Basire engraving of the William Hodges portrait, prepared as frontispiece for the French publication of the official account of the second voyage.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3007743
The Mutineers turning Lieutenant Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift…
London: B.B. Evans, 1790.
The most infamous moment in naval history: Bligh cast adrift
Coloured aquatint engraving, 455 x 620 mm., mounted and framed. The mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh and his men cast adrift: one of the best known of all maritime images, which includes the only known portrait...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504091
Consequences of a Successfull French Invasion…
London: J. Gillray, nd. circa 1850.
The House is adjourned to Botany Bay
Engraving, 370 x 270 mm., handcoloured as issued, mounted. A famous, satirical look at the decision of the English parliament to create a penal settlement at Botany Bay, in contrast to the atmosphere of reform and concern...
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2711259
Tetes et Groupe de Sauvages du Camden-Shire (Nouvelle Galles meridionale).
Paris: Bulla, 1828.
Aboriginal portraits and camp-fire scene
Handcoloured lithograph, 385 x 290 mm. Engaging Australian Aboriginal portraits and camp scene from the official voyage account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who toured the South Pacific between 1824 and 1826. Edmond de la Touanne, whose work formed the basis of these...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402059
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HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail…
London: Ackermann, 1852.
Splendid marine lithographs by Queen Victoria's artist
Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm. A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2711255
HMS "Rattlesnake" Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley R.N.
London: Day and Son, 1852. Coloured lithograph measuring 250 x 350 mm., mounted and framed. Dramatic and finely executed coloured lithograph of the survey vessel HMS Rattlesnake by eminent marine artist Sir Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). Under the command of Captain Stanley Owen the Rattlesnake undertook an extensive marine...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4005793