London: L. Reeve & Co, c.1860.
Australian Christmas Bells
Hand coloured lithograph, 285 x 240mm, mounted and framed. Artist's proof with notes to the colourist. An artist's proof, beautifully hand-coloured with detailed notes for the colourist and addressed to the publishers of The Floral Magazine, Reeve and Company in Covent... More
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... More
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. More
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. More
![The Death of Captain Cook [caption title]. ANONYMOUS.](/pictures/thumb/4007930.jpg?v=1459830501)
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... More
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, who... More
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... More
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... More
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
After the dance portrait
Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance. More
London: J. Cooke, 1787-1790. Original eighteenth century engraving, 120 x 175 mm. (image size). Engraving of Stubb's kangaroo, disbound from Bankes' New System of Geography. More
London: H. Humphrey, 4 July 1795.
Making fun of Sir Joseph, metamorphosing into a splendid butterfly
Hand coloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted and framed. The first issue of 1795; an extremely rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed here for using the Royal Order of the... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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 all... More![Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre de Witt … Terre de Diémen du nord… [Plate VII from:] Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes. BAUDIN, Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR, after.](/pictures/thumb/2303029.jpg?v=1445314350)
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 and... More
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... More
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 distinct... More
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. More
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... More
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... More
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 fine... More![HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail for anchoring. Sir Oswald Walters BRIERLY, after.](/pictures/thumb/2711255.jpg?v=1444191149)
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... More