Prints
The Old Captain
1929. Colour linocut, initialled in block lower left, signed, editioned 23/25 and titled in pencil in lower margin, 21.6 x 18.3cm. Minor paper loss to left edge of image. Portrait of Flett’s grandfather. Illustrated in Butler, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, p44. Held in Castlemaine Art Gallery. More
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, Transform’d Into A Bath Butterfly [Sir Joseph Banks]
1795/c1851. Etching with later hand-colouring, number “410” in plate upper right, initialled, titled and captioned in plate below image, 35.4 x 24.9cm. Minor stains to margins. Text reads “Pub. July 4th 1795 by H. Humphrey, No. 37, New Bond Street.” Caption provides a satirical description of the “butterfly” Sir Joseph..... More
[A Gathering]
c1976. Collage of found wood engraving and process screen prints on line block background, signed by Gleeson in ink on image upper right, 14.3 x 20.9cm. Minor tears to edges of image. Framed. More
Skybones
2004. Aquatint with etching, annotated “a/p” [artist’s proof] and signed in pencil in lower margin, 21.3 x 25.6cm. Image held in the National Gallery of Australia. Printed by Michael Kempson of Cicada Press in an edition of 50, this image was commissioned by Beagle Press for the deluxe limited edition..... More
At Yarmouth [Donkey And Boy]
c1920s. Etching with drypoint, signed by Dowd and titled in an unknown hand in pencil in lower margin, 20.1 x 14.7cm. Slight foxing to edges and lower portion of image, old mount burn. More
Ras-el-Ain [Syria]
1918. Etching, signed, titled and dated “July 1918-19” in plate lower right, numbered “48” and signed in ink in lower margin, 20 x 32.4cm. From an edition of 76. “Ras-el-Ain, a fortress of the Crusaders, lies in the Maritime Plain a few miles north of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Road. During the..... More
The Riva At Dusk [Venice]
1925/1930. Drypoint, signed and dated “Venice. 20 October 1925” in plate lower left, annotated “LXIII” and signed in ink, and annotated “80 proofs” and titled in another hand in pencil in lower margin, 40.4 x 23.8cm. Minor foxing, old mount burn. Annotated “S.S.” in an unknown hand in ink on..... More
Little Evelyn
1896. Lithograph, butterfly monogram in image upper left, letterpress below image, 17.5 x 11.6cm. Slight stains to image upper centre and margins, minor creases and tears to edge of right margin, old mount burn. Trimmed text reads “Art Journal, March, 1896.” From an edition of 3,000, printed by Thomas Way..... More
The Little Pool
1861/1871. Etching and drypoint, signed and dated in plate centre left, 10.2 x 12.6cm. Minor glue stains to upper margin, old mount burn. State viii/viii. From the series Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames, 1861. Ref: Kennedy #74. More
Sketches On The Coast Survey Plate
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
The Tyresmith
1890. Lithograph, butterfly monogram in image centre left, 16.7 x 17.3cm. Publisher’s line trimmed from upper margin, minor soiling and creases, missing portion to lower right corner. Published by T.R. Way for The Whirlwind: A Lively and Eccentric Newspaper, Nov. 15, 1890 in an edition of 500 to 1,000. The..... More
The Rag Gatherers
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
Portrait Study Of W.P. Nicholson
1897. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower right, magazine blindstamp “The Studio, London” below image, 21.1 x 14.8cm. Slight stains overall. From The Studio magazine, issue 57. The Beggarstaff Brothers, James Pryde and William Nicholson or “J. & W. Beggarstaff”, were brothers-in-law who collaborated on poster designs between 1894 and..... More
Little Peggy, 33 Inches In Height
1823. Lithograph, text with partially obscured title and date below image, annotated in pencil in lower margin, 33.8 x 45.5cm (image). Rubbing and repairs below image. Text reads “James Ward RA. Prix, et Del. Select proof retouched by J.W. London. Pub. April 1823 for J.W. by R. Ackermann. Rodwell &..... More
Frontispiece For Paul Morand’s “Baton Rouge” [Woman On Telephone]
1927. Drypoint, initialled “L.” in plate lower right, 13 x 9.3cm. Minor paper loss and repaired tears to left edge, paper remnants and minor stains to margins, old mount burn. Ref: Laboureur #358. Held in Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Illustration for the Paul Morand novella, Baton Rouge about a black..... More
Marchand De Fleurs Au Trocadéro [Paris]
1931. Engraving, initialled “L.” in plate lower left, signed and editioned 1/7 in pencil in lower margin, 19.5 x 14.5cm. Slight foxing overall. Framed. Provenance: James Fairfax estate. Ref: Laboureur #433. Held in Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The “flower shop at Trocadero” includes the Eiffel Tower in the background. More
A Picnic In A Clearing
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
Imprint From Dorian Gray’s Stomach
1968. Etching, titled in plate upper left, signed in pencil in lower margin, 42.7 x 28.6cm. Slight stains to right edge of image and to right margin, minor foxing and soiling. Published by Petersburg Press Ltd. Ref: Metropolitan Museum of Art. This etching is from the special deluxe edition of..... More
Céramiques
1974. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower right, 42 x 62cm. Minor cockling, old mount burn. Ref: Cramer #928. More
Cover For “Joan Miro, Lithographs IV 1969-1972”
1981. Colour lithograph, folded as issued, 31.9 x 24.9cm (paper). This lithograph, issued in Joan Miro, Lithographs IV 1969-1972, was published by Maeght and printed by Imprimerie Moderne du Lion in Paris, in an unnumbered, unsigned edition. Ref: Mourlot #1255 (Volume VI). More
Le Bousier (The Dung Beetle)
1978. Aquatint and drypoint, printed à la poupée, editioned 19/30 and signed in pencil in lower margin, 20.7 x 35cm (platemark), 50.9 x 66.9cm (paper).Slight discolouration to paper. Framed. Printed with two plates: the first plate, forming the background image, is in aquatint and drypoint in multiple colours and most..... More
[Lithograph II From “Sculptures”]
1974. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower right, 27.7 x 55.9cm. Old vertical fold as issued, minor creases lower centre. One of two lithographs included in Miro, Sculptures, 1974, published by Maeght, Paris. Ref: Mourlot #949. More
Original Lithograph VII [From A Series Of 14]
1975. Colour lithograph, 31.9 x 24.9cm (paper). This lithograph, issued in Joan Miro, Lithographs II 1953-1963, was published in a number of editions with text in French, English, Spanish, German, Swedish and in Japanese, as referenced in Maeght. The lithographs were printed by Mourlot in an unsigned edition. Ref: Mourlot..... More
[Dionysos]
1982. Etching with aquatint and carborundum, made up with nine plates, editioned 19/25, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 23 x 23.2cm (overall). Minor foxing to margins, old mount burn. Similar image entitled The Arrival of Dionysos held in Tate Gallery. More