Miller’s Point, Sydney, From The Flagstaff Hill
1842. Tinted lithograph, signed in image lower left, title in lower margin, 18 x 26.6cm. Minor crinkles, slight stains and pinholes to image, creases, old mount burn. More
1842. Tinted lithograph, signed in image lower left, title in lower margin, 18 x 26.6cm. Minor crinkles, slight stains and pinholes to image, creases, old mount burn. More
1842. Letterpress document on parchment with affixed embossed official seal, stamped, inscribed with dates and signed in ink in various hands including Sir George Gipps, Governor-in-Chief, and E.D. Thomson, Colonial Secretary, stamped verso, 35.7 x 44.1cm. Soiling, cockling and old folds overall, minor tears to edges. The land, in the..... More
1842. Hardcover quarto with gilt-illustrated and lettered leather boards, gilt edges, 28.5 x 22cm. Split joint between cover and text block, scuffing and bumping to boards, edgewear, slight foxing to interior. Published by George Virtue, London, 115pp, frontispiece and 63 steel engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Canadian Scenery followed..... More
c1842. Tinted lithograph, proof, 18.5 x 26.7cm. Trimmed to image, lower corners missing. This uncommon proof is a variant image to the lithograph included in the 1842 publication Sydney Illustrated. This image is held in the Australian National Maritime Museum, with comments including “Located close to the initial British settlement..... More
1842. Three tinted lithographs, one signed lower right, 18.5 x 28.7cm (approx. each). Trimmed to image, lacking titles, lower corners missing. Sydney Illustrated titles read (1) Sydney Cove looking north; (2) Sydney, from Mrs Darling’s Point [signed lower right]; and (3) New Government House, Sydney.” Held in NGA; SLNSW. More
1842. Tinted lithograph with added hand-colouring, signed in image lower right, title in lower margin, 18.3 x 26.9cm. Slight foxing, discolouration. In 19th century frame. This image is from Prout’s 1842 publication Sydney Illustrated. Born in Plymouth, England, Skinner Prout was a nephew of renowned watercolourist Samuel Prout. On 3 December..... More
1843. Lithograph, signed and dated in image lower right and centre, 42 x 29.3cm. Missing portions, slight stains and repaired tears. Laid down on acid-free tissue. Text reads “Part III. Price 10/6. [J.S. Prout], member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, London, with descriptive letterpress by J...... More
1844. Pair of lithographs, Dutch and French text including title and artist above and below image, 28.1 x 33.4cm (each). Slight foxing overall. Framed. Text includes “48. C.W.M. van de Velde. F. Lauters. La Rade de Padang. Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa en Zonen, te Amsterdam.” Charles William Meredith van de..... More
1839/1845. Engraving, artist and date “1839” in image lower right, engraver, title and date in plate below image, 32.8 x 42.8cm (image). Trimmed platemark, repaired tears and creases to image upper right, creases, slight tears and missing portions to margins. Laid down on acid-free backing. Text reads “Engraved by Alfred..... More
c1845. Salt paper photograph, 14.4 x 19.6cm. Old stain to upper right corner. Illustrated in Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1981, p183, with the caption “The reporters’ table - Skene standing, W. Robertson, J.R. Fyfe, John Johnstone, John MacDonald and Rev Andrew Cameron.”. More
c1845. Salt paper photograph, 19.6 x 14.4cm. Illustrated in Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1981, p119. More
c1846. Tinted lithograph, text including artist and title above and below image, 26 x 38.6cm. Repaired tears to image upper centre, left and margins. Laid down on acid-free tissue. Text reads “Voyage au Pole de Sud et dans l’Oceanie. Atlas pittoresque, pl. 119. Dessine par Goupil, lithe par Emile Lassalle..... More
1846. Tinted lithograph, artist’s name in image lower right, text including “plate 9” and title above and below image, 17 x 30.3cm. Tears to left margin, slight stains. Plate 9 from Edward Lear, Illustrated Excursions in Italy, Volume 2, 1846. Ref: Noakes #65. Image shows Castello Caetani, a large fortress..... More
c1842-1846. Pair of tinted lithographs, text including plate numbers “181” and “182”, artist and title above and below image, 18.2 x 31cm to 23.5 x 39.7cm. One with repaired tears to image including upper margin, slight crinkles and stains to both. Text reads “Voyage au Pole Sud et Dans L’oceanie..... More
1846. Hand-coloured lithograph, text including artist and title above and below image, 18.1 x 31.1cm (image). Repaired tear to image right side, slight creases to upper and left edges. Framed. Text reads “Dessiné par Le Breton, lith. par Lassalle. Gide editeur. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & Co. Voyage au Pole Sud..... More
c1846. Tinted lithograph with hand-colouring, text above and below image includes folio name, artist, title and lithographer “J.W. Giles”, 27.1 x 32.8cm. Crease to lower right corner, slight stains and soiling to margins. This lithograph is plate 17 from a series of 60 plates in the folio South Australia Illustrated..... More
1847. Tinted lithograph, titled, signed and lithographer “L. Haghe” in image in lower portion, publisher’s line with date and title in lower margin, 34.4 x 51.5cm. Mark with minor dents to upper right portion, creases, repaired tear to margins. More
1847. Lithograph, signed and dated in image lower left, 18.5 x 16.3cm. Minor creases, ragged right edge. From Heads of the People: An illustrated journal of literature, whims, and oddities. Held in NGA. “In the crucial decade of the 1840s in New South Wales no other single figure stands out..... More
c1847. Ink and watercolour on paper, titled upper left and annotated in ink verso, 26.5 x 54.3cm. Missing portions including lower half, stains, old folds. Annotation verso reads “Old plan of Liverpool showing lands claimed by Daniel Cooper Esq. through Court of Claims.” Provenance: Daniel Cooper estate. Rare early street..... More
1847. Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, backed with linen, titled in ink upper right, dated “April 27th 1847” and annotated in pencil upper left, captioned “Plan of Bligh Terrace” in ink verso, 33 x 41.5cm. Six separate panels, laid down on linen. Annotation reads “Portion of the original Camperdown..... More
1847. Colour woodcut, signed with artist’s and censors’ seals “Muramatsu, Yoshimura” in block centre right, 36.1 x 24.4cm. Perforations to left side of image. Held in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with full description “Actors Bando Hikosaburo IV as Ichimonjiya Saihei [right panel], Onoe Kikujiro II as Okaru [centre panel]..... More
1848. Tinted lithograph, titled, signed and lithographer “L. Haghe” in image in lower portion, publisher’s line with date and title in lower margin, 32.9 x 49cm. Tear to edge of right margin. More
c1848. Four lithographs, all initialled in image lower left, title, printer’s line and captions above and below image, 35.9 x 23.7cm (paper; approx. each). Foxing and slight stains overall, minor tears to edges. Images are from series Les Alarmistes et Les Alarmés; Physionomie de l’Assemblee; Tout ce Qu’on Voudra; and..... More
c1848. All with text “Drawn from nature by Cap’n Westmacott, on stone by W. Spreat. Printed at W. Spreat’s Lithographic Establishment, Exeter.”. These images are from the second series of six prints published in 1848, which included views of the Illawarra region and the environs of Sydney. Ref: University of..... More
1848. Hardcover quarto, olive buckram and gilt illustrated boards, gilt edges and repaired spine, two ex-libris plates laid in on prelim pages, inscribed “With the best respects of William Gaspey, Jan. 3, 1848” in ink on half-title, 27.5 x 22cm. Spine repaired with blue tape, bumping and scuffing to boards..... More