Portrait
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
"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption)…
England: circa 1795-1800.
An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend
Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass. A compelling lifetime portrait of Sir Joseph Banks at the height of his powers, recently rediscovered in England...
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4504922
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
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
John Boydell, Esq.
London: Cadell & Davies, 21 June, 1814. Soft ground etching, plate size 380 x 325 mm. on a larger sheet; ex-library stamp to verso, together with the relevant letterpress. A fine portrait of the great publisher John Boydell (1720-1804), the most important print publisher of his day, and together with...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4109664
Engraved portrait captioned 'Louis Antoine Bougainville'.
Weimar: 1802.
Engraved from the medallion profile
Stipple engraving, 155 x 100mm (plate sized. Elegant portrait of the great Pacific navigator Bougainville, 'dessiné par Cless d'après un portrait en medaillon'. The portrait was engraved and printed for inclusion in Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden (Weimar 1802).
Price (AUD):
$165.00
Ref: #4109643
Captain Sir Christopher Cole, R.N. K.C.B. Colonel of Marines, &c. &c. &c.
London: N.D., circa 1830.
John Septimus Roe's patron
Mezzotint engraving, 522 x 404 mm., noted in the plate as "proof" at bottom left, mounted and framed. A fine mezzotint portrait of Sir Christopher Cole, an important naval officer and significant as the patron to John Septimus Roe, Phillip Parker King's...
Price (AUD):
$2,550.00
Ref: #4003692
Fine watercolour portrait believed to be Harriette Ann Simson (1858-1942) of Launceston, Tasmania.
Launceston: Circa 1875.
A fine Colonial portrait with Tasmanian interest
Watercolour portrait, 18 x 14.8 cm (mount size), very fine; preserved in a handsome folding travelling folder of burgundy roan, lined with green moire silk, gilt, the picture surround with gilt fillets and blind-embossed. A remarkable portrait in fine original...
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3809895
William Jackson Hooker.
London: Fisher Son & Co, 1834. Engraving, 230 x 145mm (plate size). Fine portrait of the great botanist as a young man. Hooker was born at Norwich in 1785. Following his father's fascination with exotic plants, he showed a precocious interest in botany and in 1809, through the encouragement of...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4109665
Capt: James Cook, F.R.S…
New York: Benjamin Gomez, circa 1779. Engraving, 13 x 10 cm. mounted and in a handsome early timber frame. Engraved portrait appeared as frontispiece to the New York octavo edition of third voyage, the image is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait, commissioned by Joseph Banks, for which Cook sat...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4504867
James Cook.
[Holland]: Klauber, 1793.
Rare separately issued portrait from 1793
Engraved portrait, 19.7 x 13.7 cm. Most uncommon: an apparently separately-issued engraving of Captain Cook, based on the famous Nathaniel Dance/Sherwin engraving of 1779. This famous portrait is the trademark image of Cook, and this is a fine eighteenth-century version. The...
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #4209089
Portrait of Capt. James Cook.
London: J.Webber, June 4, 1784.
Proof impression before letters
Stipple engraving, oval 120 x 95 mm, printed in sepia; a proof before letters; mounted. Rare proof impression before letters of John Webber's and Francesco Bartolozzi's fine oval portrait of Captain Cook. This portrait has a very large margin, unusual for...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4504227
Woman reading in an Oriental setting…
c.1890.
Reading in an Ottoman inspired Interior
Oil on canvas, signed lower right 920 x 490 mm, in original Melbourne frame. This large and attractive oil painting is in the original timber frame with the label of the Melbourne maker, W. & C. Dean, Collins Street on verso. It is...
Price (AUD):
$28,500.00
Ref: #4504862
Portrait of Charles Darwin.
London: published by William Mackenzie, circa 1885.
Portrait of the great scientist as an old man
Steel engraving, 107 x 134 mm. within larger sheet, An engraved portrait of the legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. The engraving is taken from an image by the famous studio of Elliott & Fry, specialists...
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #3111119
Portrait of Koapena, Chief of the Aroma district, New Guinea…
Sydney: 1885. Signed with initials, dated twice and extensively inscribed: 31viii 81.Quapena/Luepada of Maupa/District Aroma/South Coast/New Guinea. / "Carthona"/Sydney/23 Jan. 1885/'Momento" from New-Guinea- Commodore J. Erskine. R.N.-, pen and brown ink and pencil with coloured chalk; 34cm x 25 cm, mounted and framed. A superb portrait by the Russian scientist.....
Price (AUD):
$115,000.00
Ref: #4504713
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: J. Gillray, n.d., 1851.
From among the Weeds & Mud on the Banks of the South Sea
Original etching, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted. (Two caricatures verso). Rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of the Bath for self-promotion. Portraits of Banks...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4011321
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"Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse].
Paris: Blaisot, n.d., circa 1800.
La Pérouse portrait
Line engraving, 190 x110 mm. (plate size). Fine portrait of the navigator published while his fate was still a mystery. La Pérouse, inscribed "Célèbre Navigateur Français." La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007690
La Perouse from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby
London: Charles Knight, circa 1830. Stipple engraving, 140 x 110 mm (plate size). Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Fine. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI to head an expedition to the Pacific...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007938
La Perouse. Engraved…. from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby…
London: William Mackenzie, circa 1840. Stipple engraving, 170 x 120 mm (plate size). Good. Almost identical to the portrait printed by Charles Knight (Nan Kivell & Spence p.171), this one has the addition of bushes in the background and the sky. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007942
The Representative Men of South Australia.
Adelaide: George Howell, 1883.
Adelaide parliamentarians illustrated
Octavo, numerous wood engraved portraits; in original blind stamped green cloth, gilt spine. A snapshot of Adelaide political life in the 1880's. From the preface: 'Totally unaware at the outset that South Australia had produced so many really eminent men, he thought that...
Price (AUD):
$185.00
Ref: #4107313
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
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 Joseph Banks, Bart P.R.S
London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1847. Stipple engraving by W.Holl, 225 x 145 mm. (plate size); fine portrait of Banks seated, with facsimile autograph below the title. Joseph Banks (1743-1820) is depicted here later in life as the President of the Royal Society, wearing the insignia of the Order of Bath.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4007944