In The Key Of Green
1910. Etching and aquatint in green ink, signed in plate lower centre and in pencil in lower margin, 15.7 x 9.9cm. Repaired creases and tears to margins. Ref: Mendelssohn #41. More
1910. Etching and aquatint in green ink, signed in plate lower centre and in pencil in lower margin, 15.7 x 9.9cm. Repaired creases and tears to margins. Ref: Mendelssohn #41. More
1910. Etching, signed and dated in plate upper right, signed in pencil in lower margin, 35 x 27.8cm. Minor crinkles, rubbing, glue remnants and slight mount burn to margins. Image held in the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of NSW, with variant title The Central Station, Melbourne..... More
1911. Letterpress and process screen print folio with original board wrappers, each image captioned in plate, 35.8 x 28.5cm. Slight crinkles and foxing overall, some pages annotated in pencil, soiling and wear to cover. Cover includes “Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. Photographed from selected specimens. Brief botanical description..... More
c1911. Watercolour with gouache, original postcard design, accompanied with colour process screen print postcard of the same image, titled and signed in image lower left and right, artist’s name stamped in lower margin, title and signature replicated in postcard image with the annotation “Oilette”, text in letterpress verso, 15.3 x...... More
1912. Lithograph, initialled in image lower left, 26.4 x 32.3cm. Repaired tears, slight stains to image. Framed. More
1912. Etching, signed, annotated “first state” and editioned 8/50 in pencil in lower margin, 20.7 x 15.7cm. Minor crinkles. Ref: Mendelssohn #69. Held in NGA, NLA, NGV. The Sailor’s Return was a pub on Essex Lane, The Rocks, an area which was considered to be “a notorious address with many..... More
c1913. Colour lithograph, lithographically printed title on slip affixed to mount below image, 28.5 x 40.9cm. Slight crinkles and scuffs to centre of image. Original frame. Commissioned by the Australian Government, the HMAS Australia was the first and largest flagship in the Australian fleet in WW1. She had a crew..... More
1913. Etching, signed in pencil in lower margin, 10.7 x 16.5cm. Slight old mount burn. Ref: Mendelssohn #90. Held in the Art Gall ery of NSW and National Gallery of Australia collections. More
1913. Etching and aquatint, signed and annotated “no. 21” in pencil on plate mark below image, 21.9 x 29.5cm. Repaired tears to margins. Ref: Mendelssohn #98. More
1914. Etching, signed in plate lower left, signed, titled and annotated “19” in pencil in lower margin, 10.3 x 13.4cm. Slight cracking to platemark. Ref: Mendelssohn #103. Held in NGV. More
1914. Line-block, letterpress and colour process screen leaflet with fold-out panorama, text includes date, artists’ names and an index to key points of interest, 23 x 13cm (cover), 21.7 x 45.2cm (panorama, unfolded). Slight tears, missing portions and discolouration to edges of cover, minor tear and creases to edges of..... More
1914. Lithograph, editioned 11/30, annotated “auto-lithograph,” inscribed, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 18 x 30cm. Old mount burn. Inscription reads “To G. [Gayfield] Shaw, Esq. from S. Ure S. Dec. 1916.” Held in SLNSW. Lithographs by Ure Smith are uncommon, and it is also unusual for one..... More
1915. Etching, titled, signed and editioned 16/50 in pencil in lower margin, 20 x 29.6cm. Held in the National Gallery of Australia collection. More
1915. Etching, titled, annotated “no. 4” and signed in pencil in lower margin, 20.3 x 30.4cm. Slight mount burn and paper loss to margins. Held in the National Gallery of Aust. collection. More
1915. Etching, signed in plate lower left, annotated “no. 10,” titled, signed and dated “Dec. 1915” in pencil in lower margin, 15.9 x 10.4cm. Pinholes to margins, old mount burn. Held in State Library of NSW, listed as The Little Ketch -Mosman’s Bay. The name of the ketch is Ruby..... More
c1916. Etching, titled, annotated “no. 17” and signed in pencil in lower margin, 12.7 x 19.9cm. Repaired tear to lower left edge of margin, minor stains and surface loss to image upper right, pinholes to margins, old mount burn. The National Library of Australia holds a sketch which was most..... More
1916. Etching, signed in plate lower left, editioned 31/50, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 13.7 x 17.6cm. Minor stains to lower left corner of image and to upper margin. Ref: Mendelssohn #120. Held in NGV and NGA collections. More
1917. Etching, signed in plate lower left, editioned 49/50, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 10.5 x 22.6cm. Minor soiling to margins. Illustrated in The Etchings of Sydney Ure Smith, 1920, #39. The Dawes Point Battery, an historical fortification, was located adjacent to the southern pylon of the..... More
1917. Etching, signed in plate upper left, annotated “no. 6,” titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 25 x 17.5cm. Old mount burn. This image shows The Sun newspaper office in Castlereagh St as seen from Moore St. This etching, which had a run of only 15 prints..... More
1917. Etching, signed in plate lower left, signed, titled and annotated “no. 24” in pencil in lower margin, 13.8 x 17.5cm. Minor stain to image centre. Ref: Mendelssohn #137, with alternative title “Ashmore House, Old Kent Street, Sydney, demolished 1912.” Held in NGA, NLA, NGV. More
1893/1918. Etching, 16.3 x 11.8cm. Minor crinkles and stains to margins. Image also known as The Dancer. Held in NGA. This print was produced while Ashton was a member of the Sydney Etching Club from 1893 to 1895. Ref: Butler, Printed: Images by Australian artists 1885–1955, NGA, 2007, p14. Ashton’s..... More
1918. Etching, signed and dated in plate lower right, editioned “No. 1, second state. 30 prints” and signed in pencil in lower margin, 31.6 x 9.2cm. Minor rubbing to upper edge of image, slight foxing and soiling to margins with framing annotations in pencil. Image held in the National Gallery..... More
c1919. Colour lithograph, signed in pencil lower right, 28 x 27.5cm. From an edition of 50, which was not completed, and is rarely seen in the market. The man depicted on the balcony is Maurice, the son of artist George Lambert. Ref: Butler #9. More
c1919. Etching, editioned 23/30, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 11.1 x 15.1cm. Minor tears and creases to margins. Artist, publisher and promoter of Australian art Sydney Ure Smith played an important part in the revival of etching in Sydney. He had a “keen interest in architecture, particularly..... More
1919. Drypoint, signed in plate lower left, signed and annotated “No. 53” in pencil in lower margin, 24.3 x 17.4cm. Minor foxing and rubbing. Framed. Ref: Mendelssohn #204. Held in NGA. This image was issued as an Australian postage stamp on 17 June 1949, as reported in the SMH that..... More