Melbourne - Art

'Cortile del Palazzo di Venezia, Colla Chiesa di San Marco' Tinted lithograph by Eugene Ciceri after Felix Benoist. Figures by Bayot. From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Gran...

Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

'1. Streptosolon Jamesoni 2. Leschenaultia Biloba Major' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.

'Isaac Newton' Steel-engraving. C1850. Facsimile signature below title. 80mm by 60mm (image) 260mm by 170mm (sheet) Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/27) was an English polymath acti...

'Persian Cyclamen' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amat...

Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

Chromolithograph, circa 1895. 245mm by 300mm (sheet). Central vertical fold as issued.

'A Connoisseur' Vanity Fair portrait of John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923) who was a Victorian English historical and portrait painter as well as an accompl...

Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the Nests & Eggs of British Birds', 1875. The woodblocks ...

'Spotted Dead Nettle' 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 o...

'Chiesa di St Maria-Sopra-Minerva. Veduta delle braccia di Croce' Santa Maria sopra Minerva is one of the major churches of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers (better known as t...

'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.

'1. 2. Catagramma astarte 3. 4. Haematera pyramus' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

'Calceolaria' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur b...

'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...

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...

'Schmarotzerpflanzen I' (Parasitic plants) German chromolithograph, circa 1910. Central vertical fold as issued. 245mm by 305mm (sheet)

'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.

Fish, engraving with original hand-colouring, circa 1815. From Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic collection of...

'1. Hestia idea 2. Ideopsis daos' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

'Algen I' (Seaweeds) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued. 240mm by 305mm (sheet)

'Uniformen ausserdeutscher Staaten' (Uniforms of non-German states) German chromolithograph, circa 1910. Central vertical fold as issued. 245mm by 305mm (sheet)

'Cactus' 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 an...

Vanity Fair legal portrait of John Patrick Murphy QC. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

'1. 2. Charaxes tiridates 3. Charaxes etheocles' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

Vanity Fair legal portrait of Alderman Sir Robert Walter Carden KNT. MP. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

'African Boxthorn (Lycium horridum, Thurnberg)' Colour lithograph, 1909. Plate number printed at the top of the image.

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting a warrior, seated young man, and young woman. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring Background informatio...

'Fisom degli abiti dell' America Nord-oe / Uomo donna dell' Isola Nootka' / 'Nipissonghi / Ottovaeri' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popo...

'Metamorpha dido' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

'1. Iliades agenor 2. Parides aeneas' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

'Russian - Russe - Russisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' Ornement Pol...

'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....

'Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo', tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) after David Roberts RA. David Roberts (1796-1864) traveled throughout Egypt and the Holy Land in the l...

Signed in pencil by the artist lower right. William Walcot was born in Russia and moved to London in 1907. He trained and practiced as an architect before devoting himself to archite...

'Egyptians, Crocodile Catching' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt w...

'Forstinsekten II Kafer' (Forest Insects - Beetles) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 245mm by 155mm (sheet)

Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the Nests & Eggs of British Birds', 1875. The woodblocks ...

Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

'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...

'Miniature Mallow' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amat...

Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

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

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting the contest between Apollo (laurel-crowned) and Marsyas (with flute) witnessed by Artemis and Athena. Technique : Copper-line engrav...

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...

'Einsiedlerkrebse' (Hermit crabs) German wood-engraving, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)

'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 ...

'1. Ageronia arethusa 2. Ageronia amphinome' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.

'Gladiolus Carneus - Flesh-coloured Gladiolus' Native of the Cape of Good Hope, Africa. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botani...

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

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting (left) Europa garlanding the bull, Eros flying between Zeus and Aphrodite, (right) Dionysus, Eros, satyr and maenades, from an Apulian...

Chromolithograph, 1868. From Owen Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament', 1868. Welshman Owen Jones first published his monument to design, the Grammar of O...

'Celtic - Celtique - Keltisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' Ornement P...

Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the bro...

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

'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 ...

'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...