The “Mudie’s” of Melbourne – 1889
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The “Mudie’s” of Melbourne (Samuel Mullen’s Circulating Library, Collins Street East)
Sketch by our special artist Mr Melton Prior
The Illustrated London News
19th January 1889
40 cm x 27 cm
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Sketches at Melbourne – 1890
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‘Sketches at Melbourne Australia, by our special artist Mr Melton Prior’
1. Taking Tickets for the Saddle Paddock on the Melbourne Racecourse
2. Government House, Melbourne
3. The Grand Stand and Melbourne Racecourse on Cup Day
The Illustrated London News
7th June 1890
40 cm x 27 cm
Disputing a Claim and Great Bourke Street – 1872
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‘Disputing a Claim and Great Bourke Street, Melbourne’
The Illustrated London News
27th January 1872
40 cm x 27 cm
City of Adelaide – 1886
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‘City of Adelaide – The Capital of South Australia’
The Illustrated London News
29th May 1886
40 cm x 27 cm
Middlesex – John Cary – 1789
A map of Middlesex from The Best Authorities
John Cary 1754 – 1835
Engraved by E. Noble for Cary’s maps in Camden’s Britannia of 1789.
Original hand colour with water stain to top right. Otherwise fine condition. No repairs.
1789
40 cm x 52 cm
A large decorative French ceramic green leaf – AA1831
A large decorative French ceramic green leaf.
First half 20th Century. (A.F.)
H: 8 cm
W: 46 cm
D: 31 cm
Draakestein – ‘Cara-nosi’ – 1686
‘Cara-nosi’
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
Hendrik Draakestein
The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.
Amsterdam
1686
Draakestein – ‘Pee-amerdu’ – 1686
‘Pee-amerdu’
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
Hendrik Draakestein
The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.
Amsterdam
1686
Delamarche – 1790 – CGW134472/1
Delamarche
Hand coloured engraving
1790
41 cm x 28 cm
Trew – “Bromelia” – 1750 – CGW134463/7a
“Bromelia” Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750. Copper engraving with original hand colour. Trew was a physician and botanist and published his works based on the drawings of Ehret, highly acclaimed artist and ‘gardener’ of his time. Linnaeus, the author of the order of plants as we know it today was so impressed by this work he wrote “The miracles of our century in the natural sciences are your work”. To this day these engravings remain some of the most highly acclaimed and sort after botanical interpretations.
1750
34 cm x 51 cm unframed
Duhamel Du Monceau – Fruit – 1760 – CGW134485-2-23
Duhamel DuMonceau Fruit
A collection of 23 mid 18th Century French hand coloured copper engravings, including, peach, apple, pear, apricot and cherry.
Slight foxing to some.
C.1760
Unframed
33 cm x 24 cm
Weinman – “Eringium” – 1736
“Eringium” A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from “Phytanthoza Icongraphia”. The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.
1736
67 cm x 55 cm
Weinman – “Epidendrum” (479) – 1736
“Epidendrum” A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from “Phytanthoza Icongraphia”. The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.
1736
67 cm x 55 cm
A rare 19th Century hand coloured woodblock engraving of a birds eye view of Melbourne and Suburbs – CGW134492-2
Having fantastic original colours, slightly foxing and housed in a birds eye maple frame.
A supplement to ‘The Illustrated Australian News’ July 1873.
Engraved by C.E. Winston and E. Lee.
65 cm x 100 cm
Blackwell (unframed) – 1730 – CGW381543
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator.
She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married.
She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
Her project was a book called ‘A Curious Herbal’.
Weinman Collection (unframed) – Phytanthoza Icongraphia – 1736 – CGW134467-1
Johann Wilhelm Weinman, ‘Phytanthoza Icongraphia’. The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.
1736
39 cm x 25 cm