21 Anon
Fairy Gully, A Dream Of Christmas Eve, 1883. Wood engraving and
colour lithograph, letterpress text with date and title in upper
and lower margins, 31.8 x 45.4cm. Old vertical centre fold with
repaired tear, slight stains and creases to margins.
Text
reads "Supplement to The Australasian Sketcher, Christmas
1883. Troedel and Co. Print."
$2,200
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22 Anon
Camping Out, 1885. Wood engraving and colour lithograph, letterpress
text with date and title in upper and lower margins, 45.1 x 30.2cm.
Minor foxing to lower margin, old horizontal centre fold.
Text
reads "Supplement to The Australasian Sketcher, April 8,
1885. Troedel and Co. Print."
$1,650
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23 Anon
Sydney Wild Flowers, 1888. Colour lithograph, title and text
in image lower centre and right, 40.3 x 51.7cm. Slight stains
and repaired tears to right edge of image.
Text
reads "Supplement to Town and Country Journal, Sydney. Geo.
Murray & Co. Ltd, Clarence St, Sydney."
$2,200
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24 After
Harden S. Melville (British,
active 1837-1879)
News From Home. c1890.
(a) Oil on canvas, signed by A. H.
Charpentier lower left; 65 x 81.1cm, old repaired tears, on original
stretcher;
(b) Baxter colour patent print, 10.6
x 14.6cm, laid down on original backing, Hogarth frame.
Both
these images were based upon the original oil painting by Harden
S. Melville, held in the National Gallery of Australia.
The Pair $6,600
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25 NSW Government
[Special Constable for 1890 Strike - Documents, Truncheon and
Armband], 1890.
(a) Letter regarding the disbandment
of special constables from Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney
in letterpress text, addressed in ink to "W.M. Henriques,"
25.4 x 20.4cm, old folds;
(b) Government Gazette notice in
letterpress text, 33.9 x 21.3cm, foxing, old folds and slight
tears;
(c) Turned wooden truncheon with
incised crown symbol and initials "W.H.D.", 37.3 x
3.2 x 3.2cm, dents and missing portions;
(d) White cotton armband with letterpress text "Special
Constable" and NSW Coat of Arms, 3.1 x 50.3cm, slight foxing.
These
items belonged to Walter Montefiore Henriques, who was appointed
as a special constable for the Maritime Strike of 1890. Provenance:
the Montefiore family.
The 1890s were important years for the union movement as its
newfound legal status was tested throughout Australia in various
industrial disputes. The Maritime Strike of 1890 was one of the
first to challenge the strength of the unions. The strike began
in August, originating in Victoria and quickly spread to include
the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland, involving an
estimated 50,000 workers nationally. Ports across Australia and
New Zealand were affected. The Australian colonies had not experienced
a dispute of this scale and severity before. The Maritime Strike
contributed to the economic depression of the 1890s - the greatest
since colonial settlement. By October, the unions were struggling
to maintain the strike due to the availability of non-union workers,
the difficulties in maintaining a strike wage for thousands of
striking workers, and the use of police and special constables
to arrest unionists. In New South Wales there were 3,300 citizens
who were appointed as special constables, including Walter Montefiore
Henriques. In late October, Queensland was the first colony to
call off the strike. New South Wales disbanded its special constables
on 24 November.
$3,900
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26 [Kangaroo Advertising
Sign For Winery], c1890s
Enamel sign with colour transfer lithograph, text in image and
attached wine label lower left, 51 x 56cm (sign); 8 x 10cm (label).
Stains, perforations and surface loss overall, slight tear to
label.
Text
in image reads "Bourgogne … Kangaroo Brand." The
lithograph wine label, which was attached by Len Evans, includes
"Irvine's Gold Medal Pure Vintage Australian Wines. 'Melbonia
Red' Burgundy. Hans Irvine & Co. Dowgate Hill, London, E.C.,
and Victoria, Australia" and depictions of medals with years
1873 and 1900. Very rare. Provenance: estate of Len Evans.
$5,500
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27 Albert Henry
Fullwood (Australian, 1863-1930)
Narrara Creek, 1893. Watercolour, signed, titled and dated lower
right, 34.8 x 51cm.
Possibly
inspired by Henry Kendall's poem "Narrara Creek," an
area located near Gosford where Kendall resided for several years.
$3,300
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28 After
Neville H.P. Cayley (Australian,
1854-1903)
[Two Kookaburras], 1893. Hand-coloured lithograph, artist's signature
and date reproduced with text in image lower right, 62 x 47.3cm.
Discolouration and paper loss to edges from old mount.
Text
reads "Australian Birds: Published by W. Aldenhoven, Sydney.
Copyright No. 1." This is one of four images from a series
of lithographs after Cayley.
$1,250
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29 Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943)
Ticket For "Streeton's Art Union Of Pictures", 1896.
Lithograph, printed in green ink with letterpress ticket number
"784", text in image centre right to lower left, 33.7
x 20.9cm. Old folds overall, missing portions and stains, laid
down on acid-free tissue.
Text
reads "At [blank space for name] Gallery. Will open on [blank
space for date]. A free exhibition of all the important work
painted by Arthur Streeton prior to his departure from the Land
of the Golden Fleece. Committee: Tom Roberts, Dr. John McDonagh,
Alfred Conroy, Walter Reeks. No. 784. This represents one 5/-
ticket in Streeton's Art Union of Pictures to be drawn in December.
The 30 prizes include 'Oblivion' & several important pictures.
By permission of the Attorney General." Printer's line reads
"W. M. MacLardy & Co. Litho."
Illustrated in Roger Butler, Poster Art in Australia, 1993, p8.
Butler dates this work as 1896. Streeton produced only a small
number of lithographs during his career. This lithograph was
part of a fund-raising effort to help finance Streeton's trip
to England.
$4,400
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30 Charles Conder
(Australian, 1868-1909)
[Letter Written By Charles Conder About Oscar Wilde], 1898. Ink
on grid paper, dated "29th Sept. 1898" and signed by
Conder, annotated in ink in an unknown hand on accompanying old
mount, 20.9 x 26.7cm. Old folds, creases, foxing and slight soiling.
$5,500
Annotation
reads "An original letter from Charles Conder to a Mrs Young,
written at Chantemerle, France, where he was often in the company
of his friend Oscar Wilde who is the main subject of this letter."
Letter reads "Chantemerle par La Roche-Guyon… 29th
Sept. 1898. Dear Mrs Young, I have been meaning to write to my
friend in Garway Road a long time, and hope the autumn concerts
are a great success. We have been having splendid weather here
and I think now it is even more beautiful than a month ago. I
am working hard, but at fans, I must have some done. My pictures
stand over for the present - for some time after I saw you it
was very difficult to do anything, for a good many people came
over and stayed here some time. I think some people were rather
annoyed at my bringing him [Oscar Wilde] - but he turned Chantemerle
into a charming little state, made himself king and possessed
himself of Blunt's boat for his barge and got little boys to
row him from Chantemerle to La Roche every day, then he took
his aperitifs and returned laden with duck and ham and wine,
usually, which served as extras to the frugal dinners we get
here. He is much more serious than when we saw him in Dieppe
and was very depressed at times, poor fellow. He says with so
much sorrow that he can never go into society again and feels,
I think, that he is rather old for the volatile poets of the
'Guardian' - I am going to send you a fan soon and you would
be kind if you would try and sell it for me as I owe a great
deal of money about here and have sold no pictures. Please excuse
a dull letter, with love to you both, yours very sincerely, Charles
Conder."
$5,500
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