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Period: 18th Century
Period: 1860s
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L'Hostel de Chevreuse, French town house in Paris, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Hostel de Chevreuse'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings an...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Hermes Oak, Windsor Park, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Hermes Oak, Windsor Park'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who p...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
18th Century Swedish Primitive Pine Folk Chair – Sculptural Armchair
Located in BRIGHTON, AU
A rare and sculptural example of late 18th-century Swedish folk furniture, this handcrafted armchair is made from solid pine and exudes the warmth, honesty, and elegance associated w...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Australia
Materials
Pine
Circa 1700, Rare Italian Walnut and Oak Marquetry Commode, Museum Quality
Located in PERTH, WA
This rare and utterly perfect Italian walnut commode, has been dated in Italy to Circa 1700. Featuring the classical Louis XVI form, this commode has been restored to museum quality....
Category
18th Century Antique Australia
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Chateau Valeri, French chateau, garden estate plan, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chateau Valeri'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and citie...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Apuleius, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Apuleio' (Apuleius)
Copper-line engraving by N Billy after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
The Yacou, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Terence, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Terenzio' (Terence)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomared after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) w...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Henley-bridge, Oxon, Thames, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Henley-bridge, Oxon'
Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aqua...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
A Large Louis XV Period Carved Beech and Tapestry Canape, French Circa 1750
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Large and Impressive Louis XV period carved beech and tapestry canape, French circa 1750
Height: 109 cm Width: 202 cm Depth: 72 cm
Provenance: Private Australian Collection acqui...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Australia
Materials
Tapestry, Beech
Middleham Castle, Yorkshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Part of Middleham Castle, NW Riding, Yorkshire'
Engraving by T Woodyer after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Mago of Carthage, Roman bust, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Magone Cartaginese' (Magone of Carthage)
Copper-line engraving by Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from 'Musei Capitolini', a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
Mago I, also known as Magon, was the king of the Ancient Carthage...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
'Vue des Montagnes du Val-Travers, Neuchatel, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue des Montagnes du Val-Travers, d'ou aperçoit le Lac de Neuchatel'
French copper-line engraving by Duparc after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'Th...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
18th Century Swedish Primitive Milking Stool – Hand-Carved
Located in BRIGHTON, AU
This rare 18th-century Swedish milking stool is a beautiful example of primitive folk craftsmanship. Hand-carved from solid pine, it was originally used in rural Sweden as a milking ...
Category
18th Century Antique Australia
Materials
Pine
Galileo, late 18th century science astronomy portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution....
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Terence, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Terenzio' (Terence)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomared after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) w...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
A Chinese Carved Inkstone, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese Carved Inkstone, 18th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection Acquired in 1980s.
Dimensions:
Height: 12.5cm.
Width: 28.5cm.
Depth: 17.5cm.
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Australia
Materials
Stone
European School In the Manner of Boucher, Artist Unknown, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
European School In the Manner of Boucher, Artist Unknown, 18th Century
Shepherd and Shepherdess, Oil on linen.
The oval painting within a gilt frame composed of scrolled, pearl and ...
Category
18th Century French Antique Australia
Materials
Linen, Wood
Library Case, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Library Case'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These engravings are the only evidence of Hepplewhite's styl...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Asclepiades, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Asclepiade' (Asclepiades)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomarede after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
London Bridge, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'London Bridge'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Différentes Especes de Buffets et Leurs Developments, French design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Différentes Especes de Buffets et Leurs Developments'
(Different types of buffet and their formation)
French copper-line engraving by PL Cor after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Red-necked Grebe, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue d'une partie du Lac de Geneve, Switzerland, engraving, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French copper-line engraving depicting the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland.
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illustrated', by Antoine Baron de Zurlauben (1720-1795) & Jean B...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Rococo design for a gate, German mid 18th century etching
By Joseph Baumann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750.
Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756).
Similar works ar...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Lysias, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lisia' (Lysias)
Copper-line engraving by Pietro Parrocol after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an Ancient Greek marble...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Malabar Shrike, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Castle of Irrois in Champagne, French architecture, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp. du Chasteau de Irrois en Champagne'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, g...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Crested Pheasant, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Gold-breasted Trumpeter, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
French Neoclassical design for a Pulpit, engraving after Delafosse
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, 'Nouvelle Iconologie Historique' in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Chinese Diver, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Spectacle Owl, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Bidet Shaving and Night Tables, Hepplewhite Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Bidet Shaving Table and Night Table'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These en...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Green Partridge, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Hooded Merganser, 18th century bird duck engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Pink-headed Duck, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Black faced Ibis, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper with watermark.
John Latham was the lea...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
William Chambers Georgian Architecture - Chimney Pieces
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Foudrinier (1698-1758) after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), 1794.
Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was a renown 18th century British architect. He traveled to China, France and Italy before establishing an architectural practice in London. He became Architect of the King's Works and worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, making fanciful garden buildings...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, MP: rebel, regicide, suppressor of Ireland, persecutor of Catholics, and Dictator. He was posthum...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
View of Blackfriars Bridge from Somerset Place, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
View of Blackfriars Bridge from Somerset Place'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
The Monitory Lizard, Australia, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1790
By Frederick Polydore Nodder
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Monitory Lizard'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1790, by Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
120mm by 195mm (platemnark).
Early engraving of an ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Viliers Costret, French chateau, architectural plan, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Viliers Costret'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and citi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Agenor and Cadmus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
By Binet after Charles Monnet (1732-1808)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Binet after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Agenor tells Cadmus to go and look for his sister Europae.
From 'Les Metamorphoses d'...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
The Rostrated Ray, Australia, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1794
By Frederick Polydore Nodder
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Rostrated Ray' (Eastern Shovelnose Ray)
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1794, by Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
110mm by 195mm (platemark)
125...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
A Spanish Gilded Mirror, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Spanish Gilded Mirror, 18th Century
Provenance:
Private Old Melbourne Collection.
Description:
The plate encased by gilded fillets to ebonised primary frame, the outline of eac...
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Australia
Materials
Wood
The Lobated Musk Duck, Australia, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1795
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Lobated Musk Duck'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1796, by Richard Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
155mm by 125mm (platemark).
Early engraving of an ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Caernarfon Castle, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Caernarvon Castle'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
San Benedetto Con Altri Nanti, religious engraving after Veronese, circa 1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Religious copper-line engraving by CM after Francesco Petrucci after (Paolo Caliari) Veronese. Depicts Saint Benedict and other holy figures.
Paolo Vero...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Australia
Materials
Engraving
St James's House, London, engraving, Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff, 1708
By Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'St James's House - Le Palais Royal de St James'
Engraving by Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff.
Kip was a Dutch engraver who moved to London circa 16...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
George I, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
By Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George I'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George I (1660-1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Castle and Town of Tanlay, French architecture, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp du Chasteau et Bourg de Tanlay'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, garden...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
French Neoclassical Design engraving for Braziers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, Nouvelle Iconologie Historique in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
A Large Directoire Period Painted Seven- fold Screen, French Late 18th century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Large Directoire Period Painted Seven- fold Screen, French Late 18th century
Height: 175 cm Width: 420 cm fully extended Depth: 3 cm each panel
Provenance: Private Australian Col...
Category
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Australia
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood
An Italian Giltwood Rococo Mirror, Late 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Italian Giltwood Rococo Mirror, Late 18th Century
Description:
The central rectangular plate in an ornately carved giltwood frame with scrolling acanthus leaf and foliate trails,...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Giltwood
Benjamin West, history painter, portrait, soft ground etching, 1809
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Benj. West RA'
Soft ground etching by William Daniell RA (1769-1837) after George Dance the Younger (1741-1825), 1809.
Benjamin West PRA (1738 – 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence...
Category
Early 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching
