 The Art of WaterCollectors' List 121 2006 |
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11 Charles Alexander Lesueur (French, 1778-1846) Nouvelle Hollande [Sydney Cove], 1802. Copper engraving, artist, engraver "J. Millbert", title and text in plate below image, 14.8 x 20.9cm. Slight discolouration to margins, chips to edges. Text includes "Vue d'une Partie de la Ville de Sydney capitale des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes, et de l'entrée du Port Jackson dans lequel cette Ville est situ'ee." Lesueur made 1,500 drawings while on the Peron and de Freycinet Voyage. |
$1,350 |
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12 After H. Thomson The Shipwrecked Mariner, 1806. Hand-coloured mezzotint, artist, publisher, date, title, engraver "W. Say", poem and text in plate below image, 62.9 x 41.5cm. Repaired tears to edges. Text reads "Painted by H. Thomson R.A. London. Published July 1st 1806, by H. Macklin, 39, Fleet Street. Engraved by W. Say. From an original picture in the collection of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart, at Stowr Head Wiltshire, to whom this plate is dedicated by his obliged humble servt. H. Macklin." Poem reads "Sad on the jutting eminence he sits, And views the main that ever toils below; Still fondly forming in the farthest verge, Where the sound ether mixes with the wave. Ships dim discovered dropping from the clouds, At evening to the setting sun he turns; A mournful eye and down his dying heart, Sinks helpless." |
$1,650 |
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13 Anon Lympstone, 1817. Watercolour, titled, dated and annotated in ink below image, 12.7 x 43.6cm. Backed on original board. Annotation reads "Sir Walter Roberts. Ship Parr enters. Mr. Russell, Exmouth." |
$1,000 |
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14 After Captain James Wallis (British, 1785-1858) A View of the Cove and Part of Sydney. New South Wales. Taken from Dawe's Battery, 1821. Hand-coloured engraving, engraver, artist, title, date and publisher in plate below image, 32.2 x 55.4cm. Original fold to centre, old stains to margins and image. Text reads "Engrav'd by W. Preston from an original drawing by Capt Wallis. 46th Reg.t. London Pub. Sept 1 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand." Captain Wallis was in Australia from 1814 to 1819. |
$4,400 |
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15 Joseph Lycett
(1774-1828) Beckett's Fall on the River Apsley, New South Wales, 1824. Hand-coloured aquatint, artist, title, date and partly obscured publisher's line in plate below image, 27.7 x 17.5cm. Slight foxing to margins. Text reads "London, Published, Nov. 1, 1824 by J. Souter, 73 St. Pauls Church Yard." |
$880 |
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16 Joseph Lycett
(1774-1828) Bathurst Cataract on the River Apsley, New South Wales, 1824. Hand-coloured aquatint, artist, title, date and publisher in plate below image, 17.1 x 27.3cm. Slight foxing to margins. Text reads "London, Published, Nov. 1, 1824 by J. Souter, 73 St. Pauls Church Yard." |
$990 |
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17 After Louis Auguste de Sainson (French, 1801-1887) Vue des Caps du Port Jackson (Nouvelle Galles de Sud) [Sydney Heads], 1826. Hand-coloured lithograph, artist, lithographer, title, publisher, printer and blind stamp below image, 20.1 x 31.8cm. Discolouration and slight foxing to margins. Text reads "A. St Aulaire lith. J. Tastu, Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier." Stamp reads "Voyage de Astrolabe. J. Dumont Durville. Commandant J.T." |
$2,200 |
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18 Anon The Conchologist, 1830. Hand-coloured litho-graph, printer, title, publisher and date below image, 16.3 x 16.3cm. Trimmed in an irregular shape, laid down on original album page. Text reads "Printed by G.E. Madeley. … Pubd by C. Tilt. Fleet Street, Jan. 1830." |
$440 |
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19 After John Constable
(English, 1776-1837) Old Sarum, "Here we have no continuing city." St. Paul, c1830. Mezzotint, number "29" in plate above image, artist, title and engraver "David Lucas" in plate below image, 15 x 22.4cm. Slight foxing overall. Constable sought out gifted engraver David Lucas to reproduce his paintings, as he felt the tonal qualities of mezzotint captured the mood of his landscapes. Together they produced a series known as "English Landscape." |
$660 |
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20 After John Constable
(English, 1776-1837) A Sea Beach, 1830. Mezzotint and engraving, artist, title, publisher, date and engraver "David Lucas" in plate below image, 14.1 x 21.9cm. Slightly foxed with minor surface discolouration. Publisher's line reads "London. Pubd by Mr. Constable. 35 Charlotte St. Fitzroy Square. 1830." |
$550 |
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