1874/1876. Wood engraving, signed and dated “1874” by Cooke and signed by Calvert in block lower left to right, text including title and date in lower margin, 68.5 x 100cm. Old folds, repaired slight tears or missing portions to margins, minor stain to image upper centre. Title continues “with enlarged..... More

c1877. Hand-coloured tinted lithograph, artist and title in upper and lower margins, 42.2 x 61.2cm (image). Some surface loss, slight stains to margins. In original period frame. Text includes “Woodhouse’s Australian Winners. Painted, lith. & publ. by Fred Woodhouse. Printed by Fergusson & Mitchell, Melb. Pride of the Hills, by..... More

1879. Etching, 18.7 x 25.1cm. Minor stains and crinkles to upper margin. Published state iii/vi. Held in British Museum; V&A. The subject of this etching is an idealized view of Lee Abbey, Devon. Ref: Peacock, Samuel Palmer: Shoreham and After, 1968, p131. More

1863-1880. Group of 11 pages or slips of newsprint with wood engraving illustrations, some monogrammed, initialled or signed in block by artists including Calvert, Cawker, Cubitt, Jackson and Nash, sizes range from 21 x 28.3cm to 42.2 x 28cm (paper).Stains and foxing, tears and paper loss to edges. From The..... More

c1880s. Colour lithograph, titled in image lower centre, 12.2 x 22cm. Old vertical fold to right portion, slight foxing overall, trimmed to edges of image. Possibly a view from Victoria Road. More

1880. Etching and aquatint on chine-collé, 25.5 x 17.5cm (image); 36.3 x 27.6cm (plate). From Cupid and Psyche (Opus V), plate 44. Ref: Singer #107. More

1880. Etching and aquatint on chine-collé, 25.4 x 17.5cm (image), 36.3 x 27cm (plate). From Cupid and Psyche (Opus V), plate 28. Ref: Singer #91. Cupid and Psyche is a love story about overcoming obstacles from the novel Metamorphoses written in the 2nd century by Apuleius. During the Renaissance his..... More

1880. Pair of hand-coloured wood engravings, 22.7 x 32.9cm; 24.4 x 22.3cm. Creases, repaired tears to edges, slight soiling and foxing. Captions for one image read “No. 1 General view: night attack by the police on the inn; No. 2 After the fight: Ned Kelly wounded, lying at the railway..... More

1882. Etching on chine-collé, signed in plate lower left, 15.2 x 20cm. Discolouration to edges of margins. Illustration for the book, The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi by Helen Zimmern, 1882. Held in the British Museum collection. Chine-collé, a process developed in the 19th century, enabled artists to..... More

1883. Colour lithograph, 44.7 x 88.5cm. Trimmed borders, repaired missing portions to upper edge, stains to left portion of image. Laid down on acid-free backing. Published by Gibbs, Shallard & Co. in the Illustrated Sydney News, September 29, 1883. Originally surrounded by business advertisements, as seen in NLA. More

1883. Colour lithograph, six panels, text including date and printer’s line above and below image, 41.7 x 57.1cm (sheet). Old folds, slight foxing, repaired minor tears to edges. Text continues “Dec. 1883. Gibbs, Shallard & Co., chromo printers, Sydney.” Captions for the six views read (1) Who’s for Manly?; (2)..... More

1884. Etching with drypoint, artist “Edward Coombes” [sic], date, and etcher’s signature in image lower left to right, kangaroo remarque and signed by etcher in pencil in platemark below image, 27.8 x 54cm. Missing portions and repaired tears to left edge of image and margin, repaired perforations to image upper..... More

1886. Colour lithograph, captions under each of four panels in image, printer’s line in image lower centre, 41.6 x 51.2cm. Old vertical fold with repaired tears. Period frame. Captions read “Settlement at Port Jackson, 1788; Sydney in 1802; The Old Tank Stream, (looking towards Sydney Cove), [1842]; Sydney in 1886.”..... More