Melbourne - Art

'Dept. du Var', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's Atlas National Illustre. Var covers the heart of the French Riviera or Cote d'Azur., and includes the resort cities of Cannes, Nice and San Tropez...

'Blandfordia Flame - Flame-flowered Blandfordia' Botanical lithograph of an Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1854, by Walter Hood Fi...

Vanity Fair portrait of General Sir Francis Grenfell KCB Chromolithograph, 1889. Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC was a British Army offic...

Copper-line engraving by Mathys Pool (1676-1732) after Picart and Charles Le Brun (1619-1690). 1718. Depicts a ceiling design commissioned for the Hot...

'Rent Day' Engraving by Abraham Raimbach (1776-1843) after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841). Circa 1820. 'Second Plate' printed under engraver's name. Wilkie was an important Scot...

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

'Pachycephala Contempta - Lord Howe Island Thickhead' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of...

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

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

'Nepenthes Villosa Hook. fil.' Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring of a carnivorous pitcher plant, native to Borneo. 1858.

French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)

'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...

'La Via Sacra, Arco di Constantino e Tempio di Venere e Roma, colla Meta Sudante, Veduta presa del Colosseo' Tinted lithograph by Eugene Cicero af...

'John Evelyn Esq' Copper-line engraving, by WH Worthington after Robert Walker. John Evelyn FRS was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, ...

'Large-Leaved Saxifrage' 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 Professo...

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...

'Un Barbier Distrait' A Distracted Barber Photogravure by Goupil after Jules Worms, 1879. Jules Worms (1832-1924) was a 19th century French painter. He was born in Paris and began ...

'Bassets Griffons de Bretagne et de Vendee'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. F...

'Porto di Ripetta. Veduta presa dalla scala della Chiesa di S. Rocco' Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). Figures by Bayou. From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa...

'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.

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

'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...

'Charles Wilkes' Steel-engraving after Alonzo Chappel's sketch after a photograph. 1864. Facsimile signature under the engraving. Charles Wilkes (1798 - 1877) was an American naval...

'Veduta Generale del Palazzo de Cesari sul Palatino, presa del Monte Aventino' Tinted lithograph by Eugene Ciceri after Felix Benoist. Figures by Bayot. From a French series titled...

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. ...

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

'Oie Cendree - Oie des Moissons' (Greylag Goose) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of ill...

'Ecuries et Remises.' French architectural chromolithograph. From 'La Brique Ordinaire', by J Lacroux, 1878. A series of fine illustrations of French designs for brick buildings. ...

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

'Different Profils Des Cimaisses et Des Plainthes' French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's ...

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. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

'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, ...

Heron Butor - Bittern French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of il...

'Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner o...

'Position' Chromolithograph, 1874, after Ape (Carlo Pellegrini 1839-1889) Vanity Fair portrait of the Duke of Devonshire. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

Whales, 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 Interesting Animals, Plants, Flowers, Fruits, Minerals, Costumes, Antiquities and other Interesting Objects...

'Bassets Ardennais'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of i...

'Praise and Prayer' Chromolithograph, 1874, after Ape (Carlo Pellegrini 1839-1889) Vanity Fair portrait of Ira D. Sankey (1840 -1908), known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, who w...

'Byzantine - Byzantin - Byzantinisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' Orn...

Colour woodblock, finished by hand, by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) after Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). From WT Greene's 'Parrots In Captivity'. Alexander Francis Lydon was a...

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'...

'Kloakentiere' (Monotremes - echidna and platypus)) German wood-engraving, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)

Religious copper-line engraving by CM after Francesco Petrucci after (Paolo Caliari) Veronese. Depicts Saint Benedict and other holy figures. Paolo Vero...

'Maniere de Disposer La Menuiserie pour Recevoir La Sculpture' French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. F...

'George Stubbs Esq RA' Stipple engraving by W Nicholls after Ozias Humphrey RA (1742-1810). 1809. George Stubbs was a famous English painter of the horse and some wild animals. Th...

'Race a laine douce, du Pays de Galles' (Soft-woolled sheep of Wales) Lithograph with original hand-colouring by Hermann Eichens (1813-1886) from a drawing by W. Nicholson after a ...

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

'The Sea of Tiberias', 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 p...

'New York Tribune' Chromolithograph. 1902. Vanity Fair portrait of Whitelaw Reid who was a US politician and newspaper editor. 395mm by 265mm (sheet)

'Rade et Ville De Jame's Town' Jamestown, St Helena Tinted lithograph by Eduardo Laplante (1818 - 1860) after Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814-1879). 1844. 295mm by 450mm ...

Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...

'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...

'Maniere de Construire Les Colonnes en Bois' French copper-line engraving by Michelinot after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's 'L'Ar...

'Anti-Vivisection' Vanity Fair portrait of The Hon. Stephen Coleridge Hentschel-Colourtype. 1910. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge (1854-1936) was an English author, barrister,...

'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...

'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. ...

'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...

'Plan et Elevation d'une Alcove' French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper. From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menuisie...

Copper-line engraving by Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) after Holbein. 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) Sir Thomas Smythe...