1854-1855. Etching, initialled in plate upper centre, 14.5 x 26cm. Minor foxing overall, slight tears, perforations and stains to margins, old mount burn. Held in The Met, NY, with the comment “Whistler made his first etching while employed as a draftsman at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington..... More
c1855. Hand-coloured lithograph, title below image, 14.6 x 20.4cm. Time staining, creases and paper loss to margins. Text reads “Published for the proprietor by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. Standidge & Co. Litho, London.” There were 164,000 convicts transported from Great Britain to Australia from 1788 to 1868. Ref: Wiki..... More
1855. Sheet music, engraved cover, facsimile signature of composer and singer Henry Russell in image lower left, 34 x 24.1cm (paper). Old paper tape and tears to edges, minor foxing to image, front sheet loose. Text reads “Musical Bouquet. Written and sung by Harry Lee Carter, in his entertainment of..... More
![Item #CL181-49 Circular Quay, Sydney [From The Series “Scenery In And Around Sydney”]....](/pictures/thumb/CL181-49.jpg?v=1486012423)
1856. Hand-coloured tinted lithograph, initialled, date and title in image lower left to right, 15.7 x 22cm. Old mount burn. Text reads “Allen & Wigley, Lith., Syd.” Illustrated in Bowden, Samuel Thomas Gill, Artist, 1971, p86. During his eight years in Sydney, Gill completed a number of lithographs of the..... More
1856. Hand-coloured lithograph, initials “S.T.G.”, title and text below image, 10.3 x 17cm. Repaired minor tears and creases to corners, slight foxing and paper remnants to image upper centre, trimmed margins. Laid down on acid-free paper. Text continues “Allan & Wigley. Lith., Syd.” Held in NLA. “The Sydney Mechanics’ School..... More
![Item #CL194-22 Melbourne [Race Horse]. After Harry Hall, c. Brit](/pictures/thumb/CL194-22.jpg?v=1543548653)
1856. Hand-coloured engraving with aquatint, signed “H. Hall” in image centre left, artist, engraver, title and text in plate below image, 46.8 x 66.2cm (image). Repaired major tear to margin and image centre left, slight foxing. Framed. Text reads “Bred in 1834 by Humphrey Clinker. Dam by Cervantes. Painted by..... More
1856. Hardcover quarto with quarter leather and buckram boards, containing 71 tinted lithographs: one printed in colour and two with hand-colouring, each accompanied by topographical descriptions in Danish, with artist, lithographer, title and publisher’s line “Em. Baerentzen & Cos. Forlag, eneberettiget” in lower margin, 36.1 x 30cm. Boards split and..... More
1857/later printing. Cliché-verre, dated and signed in image lower left and lower right, 17.1 x 22.1cm (paper). Minor chips to corners, uneven margins. Ref: Melot #C65. Corot and other artists of the Barbizon school were the first, and most prolific, experimenters with cliché-verre, a technique that combines aspects of printmaking..... More
![Item #CL199-25 “The European March” [Sydney Heads From Vaucluse, NSW]. Thomas Edmund,...](/pictures/thumb/CL199-25.jpg?v=1585635211)
1857. Hand-coloured lithograph, signed in image lower right, 35 x 25cm. Glue stain to old horizontal fold upper centre, minor tears to trimmed edges, slight foxing. Text continues “[Music] by [Edouard Desiree] Boulanger. Sydney. Dedicated to Captain Parfitt and the officers of the ARMSS European, published by J.R. Clarke, George..... More
1858. Etching, signed and dated in plate centre right, 15.4 x 9cm. Repaired minor paper loss to image upper right, stains to margins, old mount burn. Held in the Art Gallery of NSW collection. More
![Item #CL175-67 Fulham [England]. Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British](/pictures/thumb/CL175-67.jpg?v=1492659713)
1859. Etching and drypoint, signed and titled in plate in lower portion, collector’s stamp “Max Blach, Wien” verso, 11.3 x 28cm. Tears and missing portions to edges of margins, old mount burn. Ref: Schneiderman #22, state vii/xii. Held in Art Gallery of NSW. More
c1860s. Sheet music, toned lithograph cover, signed “A. Arnst” lower right, 35.1 x 25.5cm. Slight soiling, stains and crinkles, small tears and chips to edges, old paper tape to spine. Text reads “London, Cramer, Beale & Co. Edinburgh, Wood & Co., Glasgow, J.M. Wood & Co. Schenck & McFarlane, Lith’rs..... More
![Item #CL169-21 Tarban Point And Mission House [Hunters Hill, NSW]. F C. Terry, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL169-21.jpg?v=1492490582)
c1860s. Tinted lithograph, signed and titled in image lower left to right, 11.7 x 21.4cm. Slight creases to upper portion, stain to lower left corner. Framed. Held in National Library of Australia, listed with J. Degotardi & Co. as lithographer (John Degotardi (Aust., 1823-1882) was an important photographer and lithographer..... More
c1860. Globe with iron and turned wood stand, small compass affixed to base, accompanied by original handheld magnifying glass, 30 x 19cm (with stand). Oxidation, minor crazing and wear to varnish (globe), repaired missing portion to “North America” section. Text in French includes “Nuremberg, institute artistique de C. Abel-Klinger, editeur.”..... More
c1860s. Two colour lithographs, one with artist name “F. Yerna”, both with title and publisher’s line in image lower left to right, 23.5 x 15.6cm (approx. each). Slight foxing. Framed. Publisher’s line reads “Paris. Imp. Zanote, 13 r. des Boulangers.” Images depict (1) Pancratium illyricum, (its Italian name “giglio stella”..... More
c1860s. Woodcut, 20.4 x 25.7cm (paper size). Old fold through centre, surface soiling, creases, paper loss and thinning spots to lower left corner. This image is from the Edo period (1603–1867). Anthropomorphism of animals including toads or frogs has been used in Japan since the Heian period (794–1185). These caricatures were..... More
![Item #CL168-98 [Two Girls In Meadow]. John Everett Millais, Brit](/pictures/thumb/CL168-98.jpg?v=1492489420)
1861. Etching, numbered “10”, monogrammed, dated with artist’s name and text in plate above and below image, 9.6 x 16.4cm. Two perforations to left margin. Text reads “Plate 10. J.E. Millais. London. Published December 1st 1861, by Day and Son, Lith. to the Queen.” Provenance: Estate of Dr Constable, former..... More
1862/later printing. Etching, monogrammed upper left and artist’s name and printer’s line in plate below image, 10.8 x 8.9cm. Text reads “Peint et gravé [painted and engraved] par Manet, 1862. Imp. A[lfred] Salmon.” 2nd state. Ref: Harris #59. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist and art critic..... More
1862/later printing. Cliché-verre, signed in image lower left, 21.6 x 19.2cm (paper). Minor discolouration and foxing to upper and lower edges of image, slight rubbing, tears and paper loss to corners of border. Ref: Melot #D137. Daubigny, Corot and other artists of the Barbizon school were the first to experiment..... More
1863. Engraving with mezzotint on chine-collé, “Printsellers Association, DQZ” blindstamp and printer’s line in platemark below image, 78.4 x 48.8cm. Large crease to lower right corner, stains and repaired tears to margins and platemark. Text reads “Printed by McQueen.” Proof before letters. Held in British Museum, listing James Stephenson (1808-1886)..... More
1865/later printing. Etching, signed lower right and artist’s name and text in plate below image, 9.3 x 8.1cm. Old mount burn. Text reads “Peint et grave [painted and engraved] par Manet, 1862. Imp. A[lfred] Salmon.” 4th state. Ref: Harris #61. This portrait is based on a photograph taken in 1862..... More
1864-1865/later printing. Etching, 17 x 12cm. Stain to image centre left. Printed from the original cancelled plate (second state). While Degas produced over 50 etchings, there were only a small quantity of lifetime impressions for each image. Ref: Delteil #15. More
c1865. Hand-coloured lithograph, text including title below image, 23.6 x 28.3cm. Cropped top margin. Framed. Text includes “Distance lends enchantment to the view is exquisitely verified in the opinion a new arrival, or in Colonial parlance, a New Chum…a young gentleman remarks in a colonial song: ‘I’ve got to work..... More
1867. Etching, initialled in plate lower left, text including artist’s name, date and title in plate below image, collector’s stamp verso, 19.5 x 10.6cm. Slight discolouration. Text reads “Frédéric Leighton, pinx. & sculp. Royal Academy 1867. Pastorale. Gazette de Beaux-Arts. Imp. Delâtre, Paris.”. More
1641/1868. Etching, signed and dated in plate upper right, 14.4 x 11.3cm. Minor foxing to margins, old mount burn. Published in Hamerton’s book in 1868 from the original plate. Ref: Bartsch #118, 2nd state; Hind #183, listed as Jacob and Laban. A crisp, clean impression with wide margins. More