c1860s. Iron and wood, partially obscured typed text on label affixed to base, 32 x 19.7 x 26cm. Minor oxidation to metal parts, surface loss to label. Label reads “[Origi]nal Design 1860. By Langlands Bros, Port Phillip Foundry. Hanna St, South Melbourne [Victoria]. This is a rare working demonstration model..... More

1861. Hand-coloured lithograph, title, date and text “Sig. 157” in image upper centre and lower right, 67.6 x 48.6cm. Uneven margins, foxing overall, minor tears to old folds. This plan of Parramatta Gaol was attached to the “Report of the Select Committee on the Public Prisons of Sydney & Cumberland”..... More

1862/later printing. Etching, monogrammed upper left and artist’s name and printer’s line in plate below image, 10.8 x 8.9cm. Text reads “Peint et gravé [painted and engraved] par Manet, 1862. Imp. A[lfred] Salmon.” 2nd state. Ref: Harris #59. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist and art critic..... More

1862. Watercolour, annotated and dated in pencil on image upper left, typed label attached to frame verso, 31.2 x 51.8cm. Slight foxing to image upper left. Framed. Annotation includes “blend colours yellow into gold.” Typed label includes “October 1862. (Terara was the old name for Nowra). On the back of..... More

c1863. Two hand-coloured albumen paper photographs, carte-de-visite format, in original stereo viewer hinged case, studio line on backing verso, gilt maker’s mark on stereo viewer, 7 x 5cm (approx. each); 24.4 x 15.2cm (open case). Minor damage to mount. Studio line reads “Photographed by Batchelder & O’Neill, Collins Street, East..... More

c1863. Pen and ink drawing, 21 x 22cm. Missing portions, tears and stains to edges and image, old glue stains verso. This drawing is a partial study for plate number 4, which was one of the 20 illustrations from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The..... More

c1864. Albumen paper photograph, caption and photographer’s line in image upper and lower centre, letterpress key to sitters on slip affixed to backing below image, annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on backing above image, 26.1 x 18.9cm. Stains, scratches and pinholes to image, laid down on original backing..... More

1864. Pencil and wash, titled, annotated, dated and initialled “R.A.T.” in pencil lower right, 19 x 31cm. Tears to edges, creases, minor missing portions, slight foxing. Annotation reads “Taken July 13th, 1847 by C. Martens, copied Nov. 27th, 1864.”. More

c1861-1865. Three letterpress booklets encased in a custom-made phase box. Originally owned by Robert Fitzgerald (Aust., 1807-1865), a prominent and wealthy pastoralist, politician and magistrate in NSW. (a) Robert R. Torrens (Aust., 1814-1884). A Handy Book On The Real Property Act Of South Australia, 1862. Soft-cover letterpress booklet, 67 pages..... More

1864-1865/later printing. Etching, 17 x 12cm. Stain to image centre left. Printed from the original cancelled plate (second state). While Degas produced over 50 etchings, there were only a small quantity of lifetime impressions for each image. Ref: Delteil #15. More

c1865. Hand-coloured lithograph, text including title below image, 23.6 x 28.3cm. Cropped top margin. Framed. Text includes “Distance lends enchantment to the view is exquisitely verified in the opinion a new arrival, or in Colonial parlance, a New Chum…a young gentleman remarks in a colonial song: ‘I’ve got to work..... More

1866. Letterpress, handbill, annotated with date and illegible inspector’s signature in ink, 45.9 x 29.4cm. Missing portions, stains and old folds with minor tears. Text includes “Tenders will be received up to eleven o’clock a.m., on Monday the 7th day of May, 1866, for the erection of a substantial two..... More

1866/189 3. Photogravure, 21.9 x 16.2cm. Laid down on old backing. This image was published in Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends: A series of 25 portraits in photogravure from the negatives of Mrs. J. M. Cameron and H. H. H. Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 1893. Held in..... More