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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
54 cm x 42 cm
Attractive map of South East Asia, showing the northern part of New Holland, with de Wit’s Land, Van Diemen’s Land, Arnhem’s
Land and Carpentaria marked.
Copperplate engraving, original hand colouring, fine condition.Edinburgh
1810
32 cmx 36 cm (plate line)
‘Dejected’
Ink on canvas
‘When I work with ink on canvas my images become much more detailed. Tools of the trade to the left. I’m always more captivated by the side profiles and keeping a blackened face.’
Carmel Jenkin
2013
56 cm x 89 xm
More of Carmel’s work can be found on her Facebook Page.
Mali Moir
Botanical, Scientific & Natural History Artist
Limited edition botanical prints of original watercolour 200/200
2000
21 cm x 29.7 cm
One of the earliest published books dedicated to the subject of chonchology (etching and engraving)
1668
A rare mid 19th Century Chinese export Chinoiserie iron-red and blue transfer-printed dragon pattern, part dinner service, having several English copies with Pseudo Chinese marks.
The dinner set has an interesting twist! Would have had several pieces broken, the wealthy owner must have taken the originals to say, the Staffordshire factory and had the set re-built.
Chinese Export/Staffordshire
Sold as a set
9 soup bowls, 3 vegetable servers, 1 Tureen
Sourcing
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Pewter mug
‘Gideon Haigh’
Australian Journalist
by Martin Tighe
2013 Archibald Entry
Acrylic on board
45 cm x 52 cm
Silver mixed media painting on canvas with bronze resting in the centre
Pind Kongklom 2013
150 cm x 145 cm
‘Talu-dama’
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
Hendrik Draakestein
The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.
Amsterdam
1686
Churchill’s Voyages
Mid 18th Century copper engravings of Fish.
1750
‘The Eagle’
‘Picasso en marge du Buffon’
Published by Jonquieres (Paris) 1957
Limited edition lithographs
Printed in France
The circular tilt-top raised on a vase-turned pillar and three hipped downswept legs terminating in pad feet.
C.1770 H:69.5 cm Diameter:41.5 cm
‘Mappe Monde en deux hemispheres’
by
Herrison
Large hand coloured double hemisphere world map
1856
78 cm x 55 cm (unframed)
Natural History – Dumond D’ Urville
Insectes Coleopetres by C.E. Blanchard
Hand coloured steel engravings of beetle specimens from Ambon (Moluccas), New Zealand and Tonga. Single folio sheet, plate size 400 x 270 mm, drawn by Blanchard, engraved by Mme Egasse, printed by Gide; being Plate 9 from the Atlas volume of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage au Pole Sud et dans I’Oceanie sur les Corvettes I’Astrolabe et la Zelee, pendant les annees, 1837-40 (Paris’ Hombron et Jacquinot, 1842).
Mild water stain to upper left margin, not affecting the plate, which is in fine condition.
Unframed 31.5 cm x 51 cm