P&O RMSS “Oceana” Off Cape Leeuwin [Western Australia]
c1904. Gouache, signed “P. Fraser” with illegible date lower right, caption with Leuwin [sic] on printed label affixed to mount below image, 24 x 36.7cm. Foxing overall. Framed. More
c1904. Gouache, signed “P. Fraser” with illegible date lower right, caption with Leuwin [sic] on printed label affixed to mount below image, 24 x 36.7cm. Foxing overall. Framed. More
1907. Watercolour, titled, signed and dated lower left, 26.9 x 74.6cm. Slight foxing and stains overall, cockling to centre of image. Framed. Annotation verso reads “Jack Woolston.” Frederick Carl Gerke (1851-1928) and his wife emigrated from Germany, arriving in South Australia in 1877. Twenty-two years later he purchased a property..... More
c1907. Pair of watercolour friezes attached to wooden battens, one captioned, signed and dated “April 1907” above and below image, the other captioned and signed below image, both annotated in ink verso, 142.9 x 67.7cm; 45.8 x 101.3cm (images). Slight foxing, pinholes and minor tears to edges, crinkles. Annotation verso..... More
1908. Gouache on board, signed and dated lower right, 23.7 x 30.6cm. Laid down on old backing with glue remains from mount. Born in Durham, England, Norman Alexander Kemp Rutherford, aged about eight, immigrated with his family to Australia around 1880 where they resided at The Dene, Bronte Road in..... More
1908. Group of six pen and ink drawings with pencil, each titled and signed “Pas”, most dated “1908” lower left and right, sizes range from 28 x 20.8cm to 45 x 22.6cm. Stains, soiling and crinkles; one with missing portions and tears. The scullers represented in the group are all Australian champions..... More
1909. Ink and wash, signed in image lower left, titled, captioned and annotated by Lindsay and dated “9-09” in pencil in unknown hand verso, 23 x 23.7cm. Pinholes, slight foxing and soiling overall, minor handling creases and paper loss to left and lower edges not affecting image. Caption reads “Mama..... More
c1910. Pencil drawing, 12.6 x 16.8cm. Minor soiling to edges. Another drawing appears verso. Illustrated in Hammer, Miles Evergood: No end of passion, 2013, p48. Exhibited in Argosy Gallery, Sydney, 1933, and Castlemaine Museum and Art Gallery, 1988. Florence was Evergood’s sister-in-law. Ref: GH200. More
c1910. Ink and wash with white gouache, initialled centre left, 29.4 x 22.4cm. Repaired tears and missing portions to edges of image. Laid down on acid-free backing. Appears to be a proposed book cover illustration. More
c1910. Oil on board, titled in image upper centre, titled with faded signature in pencil on label attached to frame verso, 22.7 x 12.5cm. Surface loss, slight soiling. Original frame. Melbourne-born artist and writer, Alice Jane Muskett was an early pupil of Julian Ashton, who recognized her talent and beauty..... More
c1910. Crayon drawing, signed and captioned in ink below image, 27 x 17.2cm. Slight tears to right edge, creases and slight foxing. Caption reads “Slimm: ‘Yes, I’m an artist now.’ Stoutt: ‘Oh! One of these bally chaps who paint pictures & study from the leud, eh?’” A good friend of..... More
c1910. Ink and wash, gouache and pencil on board, captioned and signed in image lower centre, 40.6 x 32.1cm. Cracks and minor missing portion to corners. This illustration is the original artwork for an advertisement for Schweppes, which most likely appeared in the publication The Lone Hand. More
c1912. Watercolour, titled with partially obscured signature “Wollaston Thomas” lower left, 56.3 x 88.7cm. In good condition. Framed. A tourer features in the foreground. Wollaston J. Thomas, a well-known artist of his day, is best remembered for his portrait of Australia’s first official war dog, Bushie. Originally from Wentworth Falls..... More
c1908-1913. Pen and ink, signed lower right, publishing annotations verso, 22.4 x 39.4cm. Soiling, rubbing and slight foxing overall, missing portions, cracks and pinholes to edges and margins. Captions in image read “Advance Australia”, and “King Billy” and “Gib it tchillin [shilling].” Appears to be a demonstration celebrating the arrival..... More
c1910-1914. Pencil and crayon drawing, 8.9 x 12.5cm. Minor soiling to upper portion. A landscape drawing appears verso. Ref: GH114. More
1915. Watercolour and gouache, captioned in watercolour upper centre, signed and dated lower right, annotated in ink verso, 13.8 x 10.5cm. Slight foxing. Annotation reads “‘Snowdrop’, the majordomo at the Victoria Club (Ladies), Sydney, NSW.” This is an exceptionally uncommon period image of an Aboriginal woman working not only as..... More
1916. Ink and gouache sketch on typed letter with date, signed by Ure Smith in ink with “Smith & Julius” stamp, 26.5 x 20.8cm (paper). Minor stains to upper portion, old folds, crinkles. Letterhead includes “Smith & Julius, illustrators and designers, Waltham Buildings, 24 Bond Street, Sydney. Sydney Ure Smith..... More
c1917. Watercolour, signed lower left, 29.4 x 21.8cm. Minor soiling to upper portion of image. This image is similar to an untitled spirit aquatint listed in Mendelssohn #153b. More
c1917. Watercolour stencil, signed in pencil on image lower right, 13.8 x 13.8cm. Minor paper loss and stains to margins. Unusual early work by Herbert; National Gallery of Australia holds a different image of the same medium. More
c1920s. Ink and wash, signed lower left, titled in pencil with trimmed publishing stamp verso, 47.4 x 47.4cm (paper). Slight soiling throughout, paper remnants to edges, trimmed margins. Most likely an illustration for a Conan Doyle serial in the American magazine Collier’s, founded in 1888. Ref: Wiki. A Sydney-born illustrator..... More
c1920s. Watercolour and ink, signed “Phil McLachlan” in ink upper left, 36 x 30.7cm. Slight stains to margins. Provenance: artist’s estate. Phyllis Laishley McLachlan, on leaving school at the age of 16, studied with Thea Proctor, and at the Julian Ashton School. She first showed her watercolours at a Society..... More
c1920s. Pen and ink with pencil, signed lower right, captioned throughout image, 38.5 x 30.1cm. Stains, slight foxing and minor surface loss overall. Captions for the first and last panels read “January 1st. Jones: ‘From now on – come what may – I shall spend every Saturday keeping my garden..... More
c1920s. Oil on board, signed lower right, 24.6 x 16cm. Slight soiling. Framed. Bank’s work is represented in the Art Gallery of NSW collection. More
c1920s. Oil on board, signed lower right, 19.9 x 34.7cm. Minor soiling. Framed. More
c1920s. Oil on paper, signed in ink lower left, 44.8 x 49.3cm. Slight crease to left edge of image. Framed. Named after the mythological multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog or “hellhound”, the HMVS Cerberus was a breastwork monitor that served in the Victoria Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and..... More
c1920s. Pen and ink, signed in ink lower centre by Lindsay, captioned in ink below image in an unknown hand, 35.9 x 50.6cm. Framed. Possibly an illustration for The Bulletin or The Lone Hand magazine. More