88 NSW Sudan Collection
Repaired tears, paper loss, old folds and slight foxing overall.
All images framed.
Collection illustrated in Inglis, The Rehearsal: Australians
at War in the Sudan 1885, 1985, Sydney. Rare pair of lithographs
- sighted only twice in the market in 25 years.
(a) Charles H. Hunt (Aus., 1857-1938).
The Embarkation Of NSW Troops For Suakim, 1885. Colour lithograph,
signed in image lower left, text, date and title above and below
image; 38.1 x 51.6cm.
Text includes "Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News,
April 11, 1885. Gibbs Shallard & Co., Artists & Chromo-Printers,
Sydney.
(b) Gibbs, Shallard & Co. (Aus.,
printer). The Return of the Soudan Contingent, Scene in Oxford
Street, c1885. Colour lithograph, text and title above and below
image, 39 x 51.5cm.
Text includes "Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News.
Gibbs Shallard & Co., Sydney."
(c) After Livingston Hopkins (Amer./Aus,
1846-1927). The Roll-Call-the Return of the NSW Contingent, 1885.
Line block caricature with letterpress text, signed in block
lower right, 26.3 x 41.6cm.
Text includes "Supplement to The Bulletin, Sydney, June
20th, 1885. After an original [painting] by Miss [Elizabeth]
Thompson, recently purchased by NSW Govt from Mr John Sands."
d) John Elder. From Suakim. The
first domestic telegram from our troops. A sketch of the time,
founded on fact. A souvenir of Australia's first contingent to
the field, c1885. Letterpress pamphlet, 16pp, 18.3 x 12.4cm.
Pamphlet
supports the Sudan expedition and glorifies the role of the NSW
contingent. Printed by H. Solomon, Caxton Printing Office, 114
½ Pitt Street, Sydney.
The Collection
$6,600
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89 After
Norman Lindsay (Australian,
1879-1969)
[Book cover illustration for "Bushman and Buccaneer. Harry
[Breaker] Morant: His 'Ventures and Verses"], 1902. Soft-cover
book by Frank Renar in letterpress with two-colour line block
cover illustration by Norman Lindsay, initialled in block lower
left, letterpress text on brown wrappers, 63pp, 11.7 x 14cm.
Spine damage, old stains, minor foxing, repairs to some pages.
Title
page text includes "Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., Sydney,
1902." Illustration on cover also appears on page 39 with
the caption "Shoot Straight!" Very rare.
$1,900
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90 Anon
[Australian War Memorial], c1914. Ink and wash, titled and dated
in centre of image, 49.1 x 86.5cm (paper size). Slight foxing
overall.
A
proposed design for the Australian War Memorial building in 1914,
reminiscent of government architecture in Washington DC.
$2,200
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91 Anon
[Carved Frame With Military Motifs], c1914-1918. Stained and
varnished plywood frame with carved fretwork designs including
army and navy symbols, containing a silver gelatin photograph
of a WWI soldier, 30.2 x 18.2cm (image), 59 x 38.5cm (frame).
Considerable surface loss to emulsion of photograph, slight repairs
to frame.
$660
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92 E.B. Studios
Late Nurse Cavell. She Gave All - You Buy Peace Bonds, c1914-1919.
Colour lithograph, studio line in image lower right, 74.4 x 48.2cm
(paper size). Replaced and repainted portions to lower left corner
of image, repaired old folds, tears and creases. Linen-backed.
E.B.
Studios of Sydney published a number of WWI propaganda posters
for the Australian war effort. Edith Louisa Cavell (1865-1915)
was a British WWI nurse who became a heroine and martyr for helping
hundreds of allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.
Cavell's execution brought world-wide sympathy, and images of
her were used as propaganda for military recruitment in the Commonwealth,
and to help increase American support.
$1,650
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93 E.B. Studios
[Field Marshall Douglas] Haig. He Kept His Pledge - You Buy Peace
Bonds, c1914-1919. Colour lithograph, studio line in image lower
right, 74.6 x 48.4cm (paper size). Replaced and repainted portions
to upper edge of image and margins, repaired old folds, tears
and creases. Linen-backed.
E.B.
Studios of Sydney published a number of WWI propaganda posters
for the Australian war effort.
$1,650
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94 Attrib.
E.B. Studios
[Admiral Of The Fleet, The Earl] Beatty. He Kept His Pledge -
You Buy Peace Bonds, c1914-1919. Colour lithograph, 74.8 x 48.2cm
(paper size). Replaced and repainted lower portion and part of
left edge of image, repaired old folds, tears and creases. Linen-backed.
E.B.
Studios of Sydney published a number of WWI propaganda posters
for the Australian war effort.
David Beatty (1871-1936) was one of the youngest admirals in
the British Royal Navy. As commander of the battle-cruiser squadron
of the Grand Fleet during WWI, he held one of the navy's most
prestigious appointments. A prominent leader, he served with
distinction and was made Earl Beatty in 1919.
$1,650
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95 Anon
[Aerial View Of Military Post At ANZAC Cove], c1915. Toned carbon
print, 49.9 x 58.8cm. Old marks and stains to surface of image
with some retouching, slight chips to edges.
Very
rare large format photograph of ANZAC Cove.
$5,500
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96 Anon
A Souvenir Of The Great World War And The Glorious Part Played
By Australia And New Zealand, c1915. Colour lithograph printed
on cotton, captions in image upper and lower centre, 42.5 x 55.5cm
(image). Minor stains to fabric.
Captions
read "The landing of our gallant sons of empire on the Gallipoli
Peninsula" and "The Scrap Heap: a view of the Emden
after the fight with the Sydney off the Cocos Keeling Islands."
$1,650
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97 Anon
[Digger On A Camel], c1916. Painted plaster, 64.5 x 54.7 x 20.4cm.
Very
rare. Possibly a souvenir inspired by the Imperial Camel Corps
in Egypt. The Corps, consisting of Australian, British, New Zealand
and Indian troops, was a brigade-sized military formation which
fought in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in WWI. Its personnel
were infantry mounted on camels for movement across desert. The
Corps, which was founded in January, 1916, was formally disbanded
in May, 1919.
$8,800
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98 Jean Emile Laboureur
(French, 1877-1943)
ANZACs, c1918. Woodcut, initialled in block lower right, signed
and editioned 15/45 in pencil in lower margin, 25 x 14cm. Framed.
JLG3741
Laboureur
#713.
$3,900
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99 W.A. Shearon (Australian, active WWI & WWII)
HMAS Sydney, c1940. Silver gelatin photograph, autographed by
12 members of the crew in ink on upper portion of image, inscribed,
signed and captioned in ink by R.B. Abernethy on lower portion
of image, photographer's stamp verso, 18.2 x 28.1cm. Some fading
to autographs, slight cracks with surface loss to edges of image.
Inscription
reads "[To] Residents of Wellington District." Caption
reads "HMAS Sydney which sank Italian Cruiser Bartolomeo
Colleoni off Crete 19th July, 1940." Stamp reads "W.A.
Shearon Photographer, Phone B5732, 176 George St., Sydney."
The subsequent sinking of the HMAS Sydney was shrouded in mystery
for 66 years. On 19 November 1941, following a battle with the
German raider HSK Kormoran, the light cruiser Sydney disappeared,
almost without trace, not to be found until March 2008, off the
coast of Western Australia. The loss of the Sydney with its full
war complement of 645 remains to this day Australia's worst naval
disaster. The loss accounted for more than 35 per cent of Royal
Australian Navy servicemen killed in action between 1939 and
1945. Photographs by W.A. Shearon are held in National Library
of Australia and Australian War Memorial collections.
$2,900
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