Australia - Art

Alphonse Mucha Vérola, Paul. Rama: Poème dramatique en trois Actes., 1898 5 full-page color plates by Alphonse Mucha, hand-colored First edition of this dramatic poem in three acts ...

'N Poussin' Steel-engraving, by J Posselwhite after a self-portrait by Poussin. C1850. 125mm by 100mm (image) 270mm by 175mm (sheet) Nicolas Poussin was a French painter who was ...

'Cineraria Aurita - Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria' Native of the Canary Islands. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Re...

Original colour lithograph of a French fashion design from 'Haute Couture'. Published in a folio of designs for Summer 1971. 32cm by 22cm (sheet)

Antique 19th century fern colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett after AF Lydon. From Edward J. Lowe’s 'Ferns: British and Exotic', 1867. Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. ...

As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Walangkura Napanangka's paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald). Born around 1946, at Tjitururrnga west of Kintore, in the remote and arid country between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, she lived with her father Rantji Tjapangati and mother Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and later, while still a teenager, travelled by foot with her family over the hundreds of kilometres from their remote desert home eventually joining Uta Uta Tjangala's group as they walked in to the settlements of Haasts Bluff and then Papunya. The lure of settlement life with its promise of plentiful food and water belied the harsh conversion they would make to an alien lifestyle with its many problems and unfamiliar demands. The upheaval however, was ameliorated to some degree by the proximity of her immediate family including her mother Inyuwa, adoptive father Tutuma Tjapangati, and sister Pirrmangka Napanangka (now deceased) all of whom became artists. Relocated to the community of Kintore in 1981 when the outstation movement began, Walangkura participated in the historic women's collaborative painting project (1994) that was initiated by the older women as a means of re-affirming their own spiritual and ancestral roots. It was a time of specifically female singing, ceremony and painting, away from the gaze of outsiders and men folk. The huge and colourful canvases that emerged from the women's camp were 'alive with the ritual excitement and narrative intensity of the occasion' (Johnson 2000: 197). Within a year, Papunya Tula Artists, now established at Kintore, had taken on many of these women as full-time artists, revitalising the company after the deaths of many of the original 'painting men'. While individual women forged their own stylistic trajectory, these paintings were immediately distinguishable from the men's more cerebral and symmetrical style. They radiated an exuberant and vibrant energy, the felt heart-beat of women's affinity to country and spirit. Walangkura's early works, created from 1996 onward, are characterized by masses of small markings and motifs covering large areas of canvas. Her favorite colour, a deep sandy orange predominates, accentuated against more somber blacks and reds and dusky greens or yellows. More recent works show a gestural quality though still tightly packed with an intensity of geometric line work representing sandhills. In a sense this provides a strong visual and contextual link to the men's linear style as exemplified by the works of George Tjungurrayi...

'Oxlip' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and...

'A Good Soldier' Chromolithograph. 1884. Vanity Fair portrait of Lt.General George Wentworth Alexander Higginson. He joined the Grenadier Guards at 19 and fought in the Crimean W...

'HMS Warspite 50 Guns', English English naval aquatint, with gum arabic highlights, by Edward Duncan after Nicholas Condy. Published by Ackermann & Co. 'Warspite' was built and lau...

Salvador Dali Le Cheval De La Mort from Les Chevaux Daliniens, 1970 Lithograph with embossing Hand-signed lower right Edition EA lower left Image Size: 54 x 39.5 cm. Sheet Size: 65 ...

'Helonias bullata - Spear-leaved Helonias' Native of Carolina, North America. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repos...

'Eglise de L'abbaye de St Denis', tinted lithograph by Felix Benoist (1818-1896). From a series of lithographs depicting the famous buildings of Paris - 'Paris dans sa Splendeur', p...

'Aldershot Cavalry' Vanity Fair portrait of Major General The Hon. Reginald Talbot CB. (1841-1929). He was Governor of Victoria, Australia, from 25 April 1904 to 6 July 1908, taking...

'His religion is the worship of all sorts of winged and finny freaks' Chromolithograph, 1905. Vanity Fair portrait of of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. KCB, FRS (1847 -1929) was an inve...

'Canard Sauvage' (Wild Duck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds....

Hiroshige (1797-1858) - One Hundred Famous Views of EDO 名所江戸百景 Artist: 広重 Hiroshige (1797-1858) Series: One Hundred Famous Views of EDO (名所江戸百景) Title: The Ferry at Sakasai (逆井のわたし...

'Corney Grain' Chromolithograph. 1885. Vanity Fair portrait of Corney Grain (1844-1895) playing the piano. Corney Grain was a British barrister turned actor, entertainer, and music...

'Elevations de Divers Especes de Dessus de Portes' French copper-line engraving by JB Bichard after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's...

'Conway' 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, and Ireland'...

Antoni Clavé Le Gant, 1975 Lithograph Hand signed lower right Edition 59/170 Image size: 36 x 59 cm Frame size: 50.5 x 66 cm One of the most internationally renowned contemporary Ca...

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

'The Century Atlas. Russia, Western and Southern Part' Original antique map, 1903. Inset map tilted 'St Petersburg and Environs'. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printe...

'The Speaker' Chromolithograph, 1887. Vanity Fair portrait of The Rt. Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel PC (1829 - 1912), who was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Com...

'Lachenalia Fragrant - Sweet-scented Lachenalia' Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied...

Chromolithograph, 1878. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior designers with st...

'Eduard Strauss' Chromolithograph, 1895. Vanity Fair musician portrait of Eduard Strauss (1835 – 1916) the Austrian composer. 400mm by 270mm (sheet)

'Gloxinias' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.

'Sarcelle D'Ete' (Garganey) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

'Ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea, Linne) Colour lithograph, 1909.

'Impromptu' Chromolithograph. 1908. Vanity Fair portrait of Mark Hambourg (1879-1960) who was a distinguished Russian-British concert pianist, among the most famous of his age. ...

'R.A.M' Chromolithograph. 1904. Vanity Fair musician portrait of Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847 - 1935) who was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for h...

'The Century Atlas. Vicinity of London, England, United Kingdom.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5...

Salvador Dali Zebulun, from Twelve Tribes of Israel, 1973 Etching in colors on Arches paper Sheet size: 60 x 45.5 cm Numbered SA 88/195 Signed and numbered in pencil along the lower ...

'Jumbo' Vanity Fair legal portrait of Mr Samuel Pope QC, an Irish barrister. Accompanied by original descriptive text. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

'Chinese Scrub (Cassinia arcuata, Rob. Brown) Colour lithograph, 1909.

This painting is unstretched and unframed. It will be carefully rolled and shipped in a tube. "Creating large-scale abstract paintings that evoke tranquility and presence in any spac...

'The Century Atlas. Florida' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.

'The Century Atlas. Colorado.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.

'The Century Atlas. France, Northern Part.' Original antique map, 1903. Inset maps of 'France in Provinces' and 'Paris and Vicinity'. Central fold as issued. Map name and number pr...

'Apteryx Owenii Juv.' (Young Grey Kiwi) From G.D. Rowley's, 'Ornithological Miscellany', 1875 - 78. Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (1842 - 1912) was a Dutch bird...

'Prag' Colour lithograph. 1895. 250mm by 305mm (sheet). Late 19th century German lithograph plan of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Central vertical fold. Printed street index on the ...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

'Echium Glaucophyllum - Sea-green-leaved Viper's Bugloss' Native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews...

'Sarcelle D'Hiver' (Eurasian Teal) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of ...

'HMAS Australia' Signed in pencil by the artist below the image. Rowland Langmaid was a marine painter and etcher who studied under William Lionel ...

'Pyrethrums' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.

'Frances Sargent Osgood' Steel-engraving after the painting by Chappel. 1872. Facsimile signature below the image. Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time and was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Alonzo Chappel...

French men's fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme et Le Maitre Tailleur', a Parisien fashion periodical. Jean Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several seri...

Baroque 17th century German fountain design Copper-line engraving, published in 1664 in Nuremberg. From 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' by George Andreas B...

Salvador Dalí­ Kniphofia Aphrodisiaca from Florals - Surrealist Flowers, 1972 Etching Hand Signed lower right Numbered: 266/350 Image size 56.5 x 39 cm Sheet size 75 x 55.5 cm Litera...

'37 Tricholoma saponaceum 38 Tricholoma terreum' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et B...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

'The Cavalry Division' Vanity Fair portrait of Field Marshall John French (1852-1925). He was an English commander who served in the Soudan, Boer War and World War I. Godfrey Doug...

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

'Furze (Ulex Europaeus, Linne)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

Cypripedium Cenanthum Superbum -- Original colour-printed lithograph by Joseph Mansell after the watercolour by landscape painter and botanical artist, Henry George Moon (1857-1905) ...

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...

Copper-line engraving by Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) after Peter Lely. Houbraken was a Dutch engraver famous for his series of portraits of famous English historical figures with elaborate cartouches. Originally published 1739, this impression c1820. 360mm by 230mm (platemark) Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington, 1618-85, was an English statesman who fought for the royalists in the English civil war...

'Cliveden Spring, Bucks' Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of a...