![Item #CL199-89 Cottage, Clarendon [Windsor District, NSW]. Sydney Ure Smith, 1887–1949...](/pictures/thumb/CL199-89.jpg?v=1585635301)
1921. Etching, annotated “no. 43 [of] 50 proofs”, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 10.5 x 10.6cm. Old mount burn. 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..... More
1921. Etching, titled, monogramed and dated in plate lower right, numbered “1” [of an unknown edition], titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 16.4 x 25.5cm. Minor surface loss due to insect damage to upper and lower edges of image, glue remnants and missing portions to margins. Image held..... More
1922. Wood engraving, titled and signed in block upper centre and lower left, signed and annotated “No. 24” in pencil in lower margin, 24 x 15.5cm. Minor foxing. Framed. Title includes Lawson’s birth and death dates. Ref: Mendelssohn #137. Held in NGA. More
c1922. Letterpress, handbill, 41.6 x 25.4cm. Old folds, creases and foxing overall. Text includes “In aid of general improvement of sporting facilities. To be held at New Theatre, White Horse Rd, Box Hill [Victoria] Thursday, May 18th at 8pm… Sec.: I. Fithie. Joint treas.: L. Savage and L. Lutz.”. More
![Item #CL166-176 Old House, Rocks District [NSW]. Edward Warner, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL166-176.jpg?v=1492487803)
c1922. Etching, titled, editioned 44/75 and signed in pencil in lower margin, 13.5 x 16.3cm. Glue stains to upper margin, minor foxing overall. More
c1922. Colour woodcut, monogrammed in block lower right, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 28.1 x 33.4cm. Repaired tear to image upper left, retouching to lower portion. Held in National Gallery of Australia. 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
1923. Aquatint, signed, titled, editioned 42/75 and annotated in pencil in lower margin, 15.4 x 23.8cm. Minor foxing to margins, slight mount burn. Annotation indicates image was printed on 18th century paper, which Lionel Lindsay often used to obtain a mellow look. Ref: Mendelssohn #302. More
1923. Etching, editioned 8/40, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 17.9 x 25.1cm. Old mount burn. More
c1923. Etching, editioned 14/50, titled, signed and annotated “ARCA Lond.” in pencil in lower margin, 24.4 x 18.9cm. Foxing, old mount burn. More
![Item #CL192-24 I.F.D. [Isaac Franklyn Davies]. L. Roy Davies, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL192-24.jpg?v=1524199202)
1923. Wood engraving, titled, editioned 10/50 and signed in pencil in lower margin, 9 x 9.6cm. Repaired incision to centre of image and lower margin, slight discolouration. Illustrated in L. Roy Davies: Wood Engravings, 1978, plate 27. Held in NGA. This is a portrait of the artist’s father. Ref: SMH..... More
c1923. Woodcut, initialled “P.” in block lower left, titled, annotated “25-11” and signed in pencil in lower margin, 7.1 x 7.5cm. Repaired tears and missing portions to margins. Verso is a trimmed partial image of the woodcut Emus. Both woodcuts were illustrated in Art in Australia, 3rd series, no. 4..... More
1923. Etching, initialled and dated in plate lower right, signed, dated, titled and editioned 2/50 in pencil in lower margin, 15 x 19.8cm. Lightly inked impression, slight foxing overall. Held in SLNSW. Burdekin House in Macquarie Street, Sydney, was built in 1841 for merchant Thomas Burdekin (c1799–1844). “It was owned..... More
c1924. Etching, signed in plate lower left, annotated and editioned “2nd state, 18/30”, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 9.6 x 23.5cm. Minor surface loss to lower margin. Image included in the Society of Artists Annual Exhibition held in 1924. Ref: NGA. More
1913-1924. Three colour process lithographs, each dated in image, two initialled “S.S.” in image lower right, 29.7 x 24.3cm (approx. each). Soiling and scuffs overall, laid down on old advertising boards. Cover pages of three issues of The Model Trader, produced by the Grace Brothers Model Store, Broadway, Sydney. Text..... More
1924. Drypoint, titled, signed and editioned 26/35 in pencil in lower margin, 27.8 x 13.4cm. Held in the National Gallery of Australia collection. More
1924. Wood engraving, signed and dated in block lower right, faded title and other annotation in lower margin, 15.2 x 20.8cm. Slight stain to centre of image, minor crinkles to upper margin. The second of two states. Ref: Bloomfield (ed.), L. Roy Davies: Wood Engravings, 1978, #35, p106, listed with..... More
c1924. Lithograph, signed in pencil in lower margin, 24.2 x 18.3cm. Minor stains overall, repaired paper loss to margin. Held in the National Gallery of Australia collection. More
1924. Etching and pencil study: (a) editioned 13/20, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 12.7 x 12.8cm. Slight mount burn; (b) signed and dated lower right, 12.7 x 12.6cm. Perforation and rubbing to image, chips to edges. Mounted together. More
![Item #CL176-19 Ben Boyd’s Church, Twofold Bay [NSW]. L. Roy Davies, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL176-19.jpg?v=1492661040)
1924. Wood engraving, monogrammed in block, titled, signed and dated “1926” in pencil in lower margin, 11.5 x 17.2cm. Illustrated in Bloomfield, L. Roy Davies: wood engravings, 1978, p110, listed with date of 1924. This church was one of the unfinished buildings constructed in Boydtown by wealthy entrepreneur and adventurer..... More
![Item #CL198-89 Office Of “The Sydney Morning Herald” [Under Construction]. Sydney Ure...](/pictures/thumb/CL198-89.jpg?v=1576815286)
1924. Etching with foul-biting, signed in plate lower left, annotated “no. 5 [of] 30 proofs”, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 32.5 x 22.9cm. Slight foxing to left side of image, missing portions and old paper tape to upper margin, old mount burn. Held in NGA, SLNSW, and..... More
1924. Wood engraving, signed in block lower right, signed and annotated “[an edition of] 100” in pencil in lower margin, 10.1 x 12.5cm. Image held in the National Gallery of Art. Graphic artist, writer and art critic Sir Lionel Lindsay “shared with his siblings an early obsession with drawing and..... More
