1793. Engraving, text with artist, title and date in plate below image, 24.9 x 20.7cm. Slight foxing, tears and missing portions to margins and edges. Text reads “From a sketch by Governor King. Blake sculpt. Published by J. Stockdale Piccadilly, Nov. 15, 1792.” From An Historical Journal of the Transactions..... More
![A Deserted Indian Village In King George III Sound, New Holland [Western Australia]. After...](/pictures/thumb/CL187-7.JPG?v=1496119896)
1798. Engraving, text with artist, title and date in plate below image, 21.1 x 27cm (paper). Trimmed to platemark, stains, old folds, minor missing portions. Laid down on acid-free backing. Text reads “W. Alexander del: from a sketch made on the spot by J. Sykes. J. Landseer, sculp. London, published..... More
1814. Engraving, artist, title and date in plate below image, 15.7 x 22.4cm. Slight stains, tears, repaired missing portion to lower right edge. Text reads “Engraved by I. Pye. & W. Finden. Pub’d by G. & W. Nicol, Pall Mall, Feb’y 12, 1814.” This is one of the engravings from..... More
1825. Hand-coloured engraving, artist, engraver, title and number “12” in plate below image, 23.9 x 30cm (paper). Partially trimmed platemark, old tape, slight foxing, missing portions to margins. Text includes “J. Arago [1790–1855] delin’t, Duparc [c1760–c1829] sculp’t.” Held in NGA. Illustrated in Louis de Freycinet’s Voyage Autour du Monde: Entrepris..... More
1836. Lithograph, initialled in image lower left, 23 x 10.5cm. Repaired tears across image, rubbed surface and soiling. Laid down on acid-free backing. Text continues “Published by J.G. Austin & Co., 12 Bridge Street, Sydney.” From the folio A Series of Twelve Profile Portraits of the Aborigines of New South..... More
1885. Colour lithographs, illustrated story, consisting of 23 panels over 4 pages, 44.7 x 28.5cm (paper).Missing portion to lower left, small tears to edges, slight foxing. The story covers an English visitor’s “colonial and gold mining experience” in the outback at Cooper’s Creek, South Australia. More
c1900. Letterpress booklet with colour process screen illustrations, each captioned in plate below image, 24 x 32.2cm. Minor crinkles, slight stains and tears to edges of some pages, missing portions and discolouration to cover. This booklet is part 41 from the series “Autour du Monde: Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages”, published in..... More
![Portrait Of Aboriginal Woman]. Cyril Dillon, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL183-45.JPG?v=1486091836)
c1921. Etching, signed in pencil in lower margin, 17.8 x 14.4cm. Repaired tears and missing portions to margins. Laid down on acid-free tissue. More
c1926. Etching, signed in plate lower left and in pencil in lower margin, 18.5 x 12.4cm. Slight stains to image centre. Held in NGA. During his time Benjamin Edwin Minns was considered to be one of Australia’s foremost watercolourists. Born near Dungog, NSW, Minns took lessons in painting and drawing..... More
c1890s-1927. Group of five portraits, four inspired by Henry King’s iconic photograph:. (1) Henry King (Aust., 1855-1923). Australian Aborigine, c1890s. Albumen paper photograph, cabinet card format, titled (faint) in negative lower left, photographer’s blind stamp on image lower right, caption in letterpress on backing below image, 14.7 x 9.9cm. Slight..... More
1928. Engraving, annotated “epreuve d’artiste (artist’s proof)” and signed in pencil in lower margin, 23.7 x 33.9cm. Paper loss to upper margin, small tear to edge of lower margin, old mount burn. From the suite entitled Atlas, which consisted of seven engravings of the continents, produced in an edition of..... More
1929. Letterpress booklet with process screen illustrations, 15pp, 21.6 x 13.8cm. Minor stains and crinkles overall, foxing, paper loss, tears, creases and old tape to loose cover. Text on title page includes “Hunkin, Ellis & King, Ltd., Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, Adelaide.” The book cover features a portrait of..... More
1959. Linocut, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 51.1 x 23.2cm. When artist Albert Namatjira died in 1959 of heart failure, Counihan created this linocut, showing the artist crucified. Later Counihan stated “He was a man between two cultures, and I respected him very much. I felt that..... More
c1960s. Hand-coloured dyeline print, signed in ink on image lower right, titled and annotated in image lower left to right, 43 x 20.5cm. Scratches and repaired perforations to image upper and centre left, slight surface soiling. Annotation reads “From the charcoal drawing.” Born in Perth and raised on cattle stations..... More
1988. Linocut, editioned 3/40, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 39.9 x 31.8cm. Slight foxing to margins. Held in NGA. More
![A Corrobbiree [Sic], Or Dance Of The Natives Of Australia. After Charles Staniforth Hext,...](/pictures/thumb/CL169-13.JPG?v=1492490577)
c1845. Colour lithograph, caption, text, title and artist in lower margin, 13.9 x 24.3cm (image). Slight foxing, minor chips to edges. Caption reads “Tommy Bundle, Head of the Burragorang Tribe. Jemmy Miles, Head of the Bathurst Tribe.” Text reads “C. Hutchins, Lithographer, Liverpool. From a sketch by Capt. Hext, 4th..... More
![A Proper Gander [Malcolm Fraser]. Mary Moore, b.1957 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL179-116.JPG?v=1492667644)
1980. Etching and aquatint, dated in plate lower left, editioned 30/30, annotated “final state, A/P”, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 30.2 x 24.8cm. Framed. Captions include “How are you so brown?”; “Oh! I’ve been to Nookanbah;” and “This is England Aus‘ourstralia’.” Held in NGA. More
1988. Linocut, editioned 4/40, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 45.5 x 28.1cm. Slight stains to margins. Held in NGA. “Pooaraar is the tribal name for Bevan Hayward. He was born at Gnowangerup, Western Australia on 16th June 1939. After studying at the Western Australia Institute of..... More
