1842. Tinted lithograph with added hand-colouring, signed in image lower right, title in lower margin, 18.3 x 26.9cm. Slight foxing, discolouration. In 19th century frame. This image is from Prout’s 1842 publication Sydney Illustrated. Born in Plymouth, England, Skinner Prout was a nephew of renowned watercolourist Samuel Prout. On 3 December..... More
c1918/1922. Colour woodcut, titled and signed in pencil with faint text and copyright date in letterpress in lower margin, 51.6 x 38.2cm. Slight rubbing and soiling to margins and verso. Text reads “Copyright USA 1922.” This image is illustrated in Holden, Hall Thorpe: Coloured Woodcuts, 1980, p77, with a comment that..... More
c1929. Hand-coloured woodcut, signed in pencil in lower margin, 28 x 20.4cm. Framed. This woodcut originally came in a folder which accompanied the book Margaret Preston’s Recent Paintings, 1929, edited by S. Ure Smith and L. Gellert. This book was published in an edition of 250, with half of the edition..... More
c1980. Etching, editioned 86/100, titled and signed in pencil with printer’s blind stamp “WHP” in lower margin, 29.6 x 30.1cm. Minor soiling to margins. This image was illustrated in the first edition of the book by Charles Blackman with text by Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman, The Lost Domains, 1980. It shows..... More
1989. Etching, editioned 39/50, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 39.2 x 47.5cm. Slight foxing. Framed. This image is held in National Gallery of Australia with a comment on Charles Blackman’s printmaking background: “Born in Sydney on 8 December 1928, where he studied drawing, Charles Blackman was self-taught as..... More
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1998. Etching with aquatint, editioned 173/175, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 14.4 x 22.2cm. Framed. Image held in Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland. This etching is from Olsen’s series of six etchings titled New York nowhere: meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, the New York Hospital, 1998. The series illustrates..... More