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‘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
‘Mount Ainslie’, Canberra
Artist unknown
Signature unreadable.
“Luteola Cannabinoides Cretica”
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
‘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
The Sirens
Ryan Ponsford
Three pigment ink prints of Ravens on archival bamboo rag paper
2011
H 168cm W 75cm D 5.5cm
Crows
Stock AA1042
19th Century silhouette of a finely clothed boy with bow and arrow. Having applied bronzing in a rosewood frame.
C.1830
H. 10.5” – 27 cm
W. 8.5” – 22 cm
[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen
Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [Leipzig], 1753.
Copperplate engraving, original folds.
The scarce German version of Bellin’s map of Australia, Carte reduite des terres Australes. The projected eastern coastline joins the charted territories on Van Dieman’s Land and Carpentaria.
First published in Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages in the same year, editions in German, Danish and Dutch editions soon followed. Not in Tooley (although cf. Tooley 156/157/157a for French, Dutch and Danish editions); Clancy 6.28.
1753
AA2064
205 x 275mm
Early 19th Century Map Engraving of Derbyshire 1805
A highly detailed and attractive early 19th Century map of Derbyshire, with fine original hand colour, which was drawn and engraved by G. Cole and J.Roper, respectively, and published in the British Atlas (London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1807 / 1810).
City of Lichfield, Town of Derby,Borough of Burton and Villiage of Ashton.
Featuring Coal, Iron, Farms and Mines.
24cm x 18cm
A Framed Copper Engraved World Map by Thomas Bowen 1780 “The World including the late discoveries by Captain Cook and other circum navigators. Carefully laid down to the present time by Thomas Bowen”
Framed H. 47 cm Framed W. 65 cm Map H. 29 cm Map W. 48cm
Hand Coloured Steel Engraving of Suffolk 1850
From the Travelling Atlas of England & Wales
“With all the Railways and Coach Roads, Cities, Towns, Parks & Gentlemans Seats.
“Revised and Corrected To The Present Time” (1850)
Published in London by William Orr and Co.
H. 34 cm
W. 36.5 cm
$165
