Australiana Decorative Prints
c1890s. Group of six colour lithographs, each with text including caption and name of printer below image, sizes range from 41 x 36.5cm to 44.1 x 41.2cm. Cropped margins, repairs to edges and corners, slight discolouration and crinkles, minor surface loss. Text in each image includes “S.T. Leigh & Co., Litho., 155 Clarence St, Sydney.” Captions read: (1) Hawkesbury Bridge & SS General Gordon, A Home on the Hawkesbury; (2) Old Year and the New; (3) An Australian Beauty; (4) News from Town; (5) Australian Wild Flowers; (6) While the Billy Boils [kangaroo making damper]. This is a very rare group of late 19th century lithographs in good condition. Only a small quantity of these images have seemed to have survived most likely to due their ephemeral decorative nature.
Item #CL203-10
Price (AUD): $6,600.00 other currencies