Melbourne - Art

'Torch Lily' 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 Freehan...

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

Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750. Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756). Similar works ar...

French botanical flower engraving, 1818. Colour-printed stipple engraving by J Lambert after Pierre Turpin (1775-1840) From Francois Pierre Chaumeton's 'Flore Medicale' which portrayed a variety of flowers, trees and herbs which could be used for treating illnesses. The engravings were produced during the great period of French colour printing using the stipple-engraving process pioneered by the great botanical artist Pierre-Jospeh Redoute. The artist is the celebrated Pierre Jean Francois Turpin...

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 ...

'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...

'Broad Bell-Flower' 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 ...

Tinted lithograph with white highlights, from 'Thirty-Four Subjects of Cattle', published in 1837 by Thos. McLean, Ackermann and Tilt. Printed at A Ducote's Lithographic Establishmen...

'Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

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

'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)

'Quadrangle of Corpus Christi College' Engraving by John Le Keux after Frederick Mackenzie, 1837. From James Ingram's 'Memorials of Oxford'. 135mm by 17...

Vanity Fair legal portrait of Mr Edmund Widdrington Byrne QC MP for Walthamstow. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

Samuel Cousins Mezzotint, by Edwin Long after Samuel Cousins (1801-1887). 1884. 530mm by 405mm (platemark) 620mm by 495mm (sheet). India-laid proof before lettering, signed in p...

Etruscan Vase-painting Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring. 1808. From Millin's 'Peintures de Vases Antiques' published in Paris in 1808. Depicts scene from an ancient ...

'La Brebis' Copper-line engraving, circa 1765 From Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi" which was published in Paris. 24c...

'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...

German chromolithograph of native American tribes. Circa 1895. Each portrait is numbered.

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

'Badminton' Chromolithograph. 1897. Vanity Fair portrait of Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1849-1922) who was a Music and Drama Critic. He wrote for the Saturday Review and occasion...

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

'Strahlinge' (Protozoa - Radiolarians or Radioza) German lithograph, circa 1895. Key to protozoa in German below the image. 250mm by 305mm (sheet). Central vertical fold as iss...

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

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting young nude man with thyrsus and flowers, opposite two young women with fillet, situla, phiale and thyrsus. Above left, Hercules in Nem...

'The Century Atlas. Quebec' Original antique map, 1903. Inset maps 'Sketch Map of Quebec', Quebec and Vicinity; and 'Montreal and Vicinity'. Central fo...

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...

'Joe' Hentschel-Colourtype. 1910. Vanity Fair portrait of Sir Joseph Lyons who founded the famous Cafe shops. 380mm by 265mm (sheet)

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...

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...

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

'Durham' Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809). From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland', published by G...

Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 235mm by 145mm (sheet) Walter Hood Fitch was a Scottish botan...

'Piazza e Basilica de Santi Apostoli. Palazzi Odescalchi e Colonna' Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa 18...

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...

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

MacDonald of Glengarry (Tartan) Chromolithograph. 1886. From 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', by James Grant, 1886. 365mm by 265mm (sheet). Accompanied by a sheet of desc...

Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881) after Felix Benoist. Figures by Bayot. From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa...

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

'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...

'Pitch Weed (Madia Saliva, Mol)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

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

'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...

Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Published in Berlin in 1883. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics.

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting two women and two youths from an unidentified vase. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring Background inf...

'Head of a Gaul' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of the imag...

'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...

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

'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 ...

'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...

'The Bear Trap' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) and Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822) after Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822). From Samuel Howitt's 'Fore...

'Tacsonia' 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 ...

'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 ...

'Elevation Geometralle d'Un Buffet D'Orgue d'Une Nouvelle Decoration' Copper-line engraving. C1770. 380mm by 420mm (platemark) 460mm by 560mm (sheet) From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menui...

'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...

'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...

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

'Aizoon Canariense - Purslane-leaved Aizoon' Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied by ...

'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)

'Gaza', tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) after David Roberts RA. David Roberts (1796-1864) traveled throughout Egypt and the Holy Land in the late 1830s producing waterc...

'171. Coprinus picaceus 172. Coprinus atramentarius' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of Frenc...