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ALLPRESS :: MOIR Birds Revisited

Today Mali Moir’s most recent magical works arrived.
I’m doing this quick post, including a brief showcase of our working history and friendship over the years.

Image references from Jamie’s book of birds. ‘Birds. The Art of Ornithology’

Watercolour on 100% Arches cotton paper.
~50 x 63cm rough cut ‘deckle’ edges.

1/ Grey heron. Ardea cinerea. After William MacGillivray 1835.
This is one of the most noticeable of all big waterside birds in Britain. ‘… go where you will, in summer or in winter, to the shores of the sea or the far inland lake … you may here and there find a solitary heron.’
A migratory bird of wetland areas, it is native throughout temperate Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
Associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth, was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork.

2/ Scarlet Ibis. Eudocimus ruber.
After John James Audubon 1837.

Native to mangrove swamps, muddy estuaries and other wetland habitats in northern South America and the Caribbean islands. ‘Here they are a beautiful site, especially when flying to and from their roosts in glowing red flocks’.

A national bird of Trinidad and Tobago also called ‘guara’. Very closely related to the American white ibis.

3/ ‘Chandelier D’or’ watercolour on paper 2019 Mali Moir

73 x 79cm

Brachychiton bidwillii
(scientific plant name)

Zoom in on her perfect details.

An exceptional watercolour by Mali Moir.
In my opinion one of Australia’s most exceptional versatile artists. From botanicals to charcoals to portraits in any medium.

Unusual late 19th century lithograph dedicated to the palm family.

Finished by hand in watercolour.
Licuala & Calamus
50cm x 34cm unframed.

Two framed Elizabeth Blackwell botanicals 1730 with a Hendrick Drakestein 1686 resting below.

Other than the three Mali Moir’s in the first photos, every other is created by Mali. I’ve had the pleasure selling the majority.

I’ll be posting other birds Mali will be paining soon. You may like to see ahead and choose.

Elizabeth Blackwell. A Curious Herbal.

Such a fascinating, gifted woman from the early 18th century. Certainly one of my top five botanical engravers in history.
I’ve sold many of her pages over the past four decades.
Having recently purchased several copies of a re print of “A Curious Herbal” I decided to give a copy with each sale of an original
Blackwell page I sell until all copies gone.

Look under “Works of Art” – “Botanicals” or scroll through my instagram page to see my latest unframed Blackwell arrivals.

A late 19th century English made 12” terrestrial globe – 1890

Central School Supply House
Chicago.
A late 19th century English made 12” terrestrial globe, retitled in America.
On a decorative bronzed cast iron stand.
C.1890
No Rhodesia listed, which occurred 1895.
Early style mappings with excellent print.
H.50cm W.30cm

Two framed original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell 1730

Round Birthwort & Spinage
63 x 47cm Framed.
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’. She learned that physicians required a reference book which documented the medicinal qualities of plants and herbs. In order to develop the publication she examined and drew specimens of plants available in the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Sir Hans Sloane provided financial support to publish ‘A Curious Herbal’. Elizabeth Blackwell is notable for being one of the first botanical artists to personally etch and engrave her own designs.
This saved the expense of hiring a professional engraver. In total, the enterprise took Blackwell six full years to complete and in the end she was able to release her husband from prison.
‘A Curious Herbal’ was published between 1737 and 1739. The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World.
Type Blackwell into search on my website to see many I’ve sold over the years.
Above an,
Early 18th English country oak chest of drawers.
The well patinated two plank moulded top, above two short and three long
graduated fruitwood lined drawers, surrounded by half round mouldings,
double panelled sides, resting on the original turned bun style feet.
Later decorative brass work.
C.1720
H.91cm W.96cm D.53cm
Remarkable, The botanicals and chest were made within a decade of each other.

Le Chat – Picasso 1961

Fine oak frame, stained and waxed.
52 x 42cm
“Picasso Toros Y Toreros”
Editions Published by Cercle d’ Art, Paris 1961
From a recent shipment of limited edition lithographs
37 x 27cm

Unusual late 19th century lithographs dedicated to the palm family.

Finished by hand in watercolour.
Licuala & Calamus
50cm x 34cm unframed.
I love the way the chandeliers reflect on the perspex, also when unframed.
Framed 73 x 63cm & 75 x 68cm
Framed by Vicki Hutchins,
Rose Street Framing.
DM me for pricing.
Above a rare 19th century French green chinoiserie display cabinet of narrow proportions.
A large 19th century English Moore Jardiniere with bold floral adornings.
A collection of 19th century Masons Ironstone and various other jugs of the same period.

22 x original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell 1730

Arrived in showroom recently, one of the largest botanical collections I’ve purchased at one time.
Including,

Original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell 1730

Type Blackwell into search on my website to see many I’ve sold over the years.

Singular or framed in groups.

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’. She learned that physicians required a reference book which documented the medicinal qualities of plants and herbs.

In order to develop the publication she examined and drew specimens of plants available in the Chelsea Physic Garden.

Sir Hans Sloane provided financial support to publish ‘A Curious Herbal’. Elizabeth Blackwell is notable for being one of the first botanical artists to personally etch and engrave her own designs.

This saved the expense of hiring a professional engraver. In total, the enterprise took Blackwell six full years to complete and in the end she was able to release her husband from prison.

‘A Curious Herbal’ was published between 1737 and 1739. The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World. 64.5 cm x 51.5 cm

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Fifteen early 20th century Japanese water coloured woodblock prints.

Tanigami Konan
The work celebrates the seasons so there is a wide variety of both native Japanese plants and many from the Western World.
Seiyo Soda Tofu (Pictorial Book of Western Flowers) 1917
A fine example of traditional woodblock printing in watercolour finished by hand.
37x27cm

My simple yet elegant Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival window display.

Unusual contemporary sculptured brass horse head on stand.
Wearing a black fascinator.

Now resting on a 18th century English oak lowboy in window display.

If you search “Sculpture” on my website, the same one in my apartment can be seen.

DM me for pricing.

H.44cm
W.12cm
D.22cm