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Period: 18th Century
Period: 1860s
Period: 1750s
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
Lady Stanhope, English mezzotint portrait print after Sir Joshua Reynolds, c1780
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Honourable Lady Stanhope'
Anne Hussey (Delaval), Lady Stanhope (died 1811) was the wife of Sir William Stanhope of Whig Park.
James Watson (c1739-...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Tall Coffee Can with Prunus Decoration, Bow C1752
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A Blanc de Chine Coffee can with straight sides and simple loop handle, and with one finely detailed prunus spray and two smaller sprays.
An unusually ta...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
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
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, mezzotint portrait print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733) was a Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. His best known scientific works are his paleontological 'Lithographia Helvetica' (1726) and his 'Physica Sacra...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Coffee Can: Blue and White "Stork & Banana Tree". Bow Porcelain C1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the Stork & Banana Tree pattern.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Sutherland Collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Esper Antique 18th century Butterfly engraving with original hand-colouring
By JC Bock
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of butterflies. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die Schmetterlinge in Abbild...
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
Esper Antique 18th century Moth engraving with original hand-colouring
By LG Klinger (engraver)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of a moth, caterpillars and chrysalis. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die S...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
A Pair of Oil Paintings on Copper, Bolognese School, 18th Century
By Annibale Carracci
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Oil Paintings on Copper, Bolognese School, 18th Century
XVII century, in the style of Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), Circa 1660-1680's.
Provenance: Formerly with Cesare de...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Australia
Materials
Copper
Theseus and Achelous, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Massard after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Theseus returns from the Calydonian hunt and is met by the river god Achelous.
From...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
1.ere Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1.ere Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard'
French copper-line engraving by Nee after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illustrated', ...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Lesser White Throat, bird and nest 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 water...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Side Board, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Side Board'
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 style ...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Esper Antique 18th century Moth engraving with original hand-colouring
By LG Klinger (engraver)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of a moth, caterpillars and chrysalis. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock.
From Eugenius Esper's "Die S...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Grand Cricket Match at Lord's Ground, Marylebone, sport engraving, 1793
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Title : 'Grand Cricket Match, played in Lord's Ground Mary-le-bone, on June 20th and following day between the Earl's of Winchelsea and darnley for 1000 Guineas.'
Publication line ...
Category
1790s Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Le Compliment & Les Bouquets, pair French aquatints by Debucourt , 1787 and 1788
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Compliment ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille' (The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family) and it's pair 'Les Bouquets...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Australia
Materials
Aquatint
Antirrhinum Orontium - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Antirrhinum Orontium'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The first botanical series to u...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Le Bolet Parasite' & 'Le Bolet Poivre'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Theophrastus, Ancient Greek, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
''Teofrasto' (Theophrastus)
Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomarede 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
Duff House, Bamffshire, Scotland. Cordinier C18th landscape engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
‘Duff House, the Seat of the Earl of Fife, in Bamffshire’
Engraving by P Mazell After C Cordiner,
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sco...
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
Side Board, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Side Board'
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 style ...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Ivy Bridge near Plymouth, Devon. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ivy Bridge near Plymouth'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Irelan...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue de la Ville et du Lac de Geneve, Switzerland, copper-line engraving, c1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French copper-line engraving depicting the Town and Lake of Geneva, Switzerland.
Claude-Louis Chatelet was a distinguished French painter, draftsman an...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Peach varieties, fruit engraving with later hand-colouring, circa 1770
By HL Duhamel Du Monceau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Peaches, Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring, from Duhamel du Monceau’s 'Traité des Arbres Fruitiers', circa 1770.
Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was one of outstanding ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Piedfu'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Dressing Glasses, Hepplewhite English Georgian furniture design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Dressing Glasses'
From George Hepplewhite's 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide', published by I. and J. Taylor in 1788. These engravings are the o...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Glutineux'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793).
From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue d'un pont sur le Tesin dans le Mont St Gothard, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue d'un pont sur le Tesin, dans le Mont St Gothard'
French copper-line engraving by Maillet after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland ...
Category
1780s 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
View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine St...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Rare Antique Statue of a Chinese Child Performing Tai Chi
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare Japanese antique statue of a Chinese child performing Tai chi capturing the pose in motion. Middle Edo period, circa 1750. Made from polychrome on carved ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Cypress
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
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 brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
