1870. Ink and wash with pencil, initialled in ink lower left, dated in pencil lower right, 25.6 x 33.1cm. Old repairs and crinkles overall, missing portions and tears to edges of image, surface loss verso. More

c1870s. Ink and wash with pencil, signed lower right, 13.7 x 21.5cm. Repaired tear to upper right portion of image, slight surface loss, foxing and minor soiling overall. More

c1870s. Pencil drawing, titled and annotated lower left, 13.5 x 31.1cm. Old folds, minor creases, discolouration. Annotation reads “Copy of Conrad Martens sketch, about 1847.” This drawing is most likely by Rosalie Ann Thorne (Aust., 1850-1927), reputedly a pupil of Conrad Martens. She was a friend of his daughter, Rebecca..... More

c1870s. Watercolour, signed lower right, 16.6 x 25.4cm. Repaired tears to edges, slight soiling. Laid down on acid-free paper. “Samuel Elyard became an artist at an early age, painting street scenes, picturesque buildings and landscapes in and around Sydney while working as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s Office. When..... More

c1870-1871. Two pencil drawings, each initialled “R.A.T.”, titled “Elerslie [sic]” and dated lower left or right, 9.3 x 17.5cm and 15.8 x 23.8cm. Minor foxing. Rosalie Ann Thorne was reputedly a pupil of Conrad Martens. She was a friend of his daughter, Rebecca Martens (Aust.,1836-1909), who was also her mentor..... More

1873. Watercolour and gouache, signed and dated in ink lower right, 32.7 x 23.2cm. Repaired tears to upper left corner, repaired tears and missing portion to centre of lower edge. Influenced by his teacher John Skinner Prout and by Conrad Martens, Elyard’s preferred subjects were picturesque buildings, street scenes and..... More

1874. Pencil drawing with watercolour, captioned and dated “4/Oct./74” lower left to right, 11.8 x 20cm. Discolouration, stains, missing portions to edges not affecting image. More

1877. Pencil drawing with white highlight and wash, panorama in two parts, captioned centre right, initialled and dated “11/8/77” lower right, 12.4 x 29.4cm. Slight creases to joined edges, soiling to image upper centre and lower right, minor foxing. Laid down on acid-free paper. From a sketchbook with two different..... More

1880. Oil on board, signed lower right, titled, dated and signed in ink verso, 24 x 15.5cm. Framed. European-trained George Alphonse Collingridge de Tourcey was a prominent wood engraver, painter, teacher and historian. Along with his brother, Arthur, he co-founded the Royal Art Society of NSW in 1880, and the..... More

c1880s. Watercolour with gouache, signed “G.W. Whiter” in pencil lower left, titled in ink in another hand on original accompanying label mounted below image, 43.2 x 59cm. Minor paper loss to image edges. One of the last ships built for the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Scottish-built Wanganui made her..... More

c1880-1885. Pencil drawing, signed “H. Perring” lower right, artist, caption, date and text on typed label attached to frame verso, 15.7 x 20.7cm. Tear to image upper left, slight foxing, old folds. Framed. Text verso reads “Sectional sketch of a ‘huaca’ or Inca or Indian burial mound as opened on..... More

c1887. Pen and ink, signed lower right, captioned in ink in image and in pencil below, 27.5 x 45.7cm. Minor perforations, paper loss and repaired tears, slight foxing and ink stains. Laid down on acid-free paper. Captions in ink read “Centennial graveyard scheme” and “Payment of Members Bill.” The two..... More