Antique Print Room

Artist: Henry Moses 1782-1870.Hand coloured copper engraving.

John Henry Martin, seaman on the Discovery, described the natives. "They have few, or no wants, & seemed perfectly Happy, if one might judge from their behaviour, for they frequently wou'd burst out, into the most immoderate fits of Laughter & when one Laughed every one followed his example Emediately." .Artist: John Webber. Original copper engraving.

Artist: John Webber. Original copper engraving.

Artist: T.Worlidge. Original mezzotint.

Artist Albert Cooke. Hand coloured engraving

Artist: David. Original pochoir.

Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet 1877-1936 Oxford University and Middlesex Batsman and fast-medium bowler. Artist: A.Chevallier Taylor. Original colour lithograph.

Artist:John Gould Hand coloured lithograph.

Distribution : Mainland Australia. ranging throughout most of Australia, chiefly the interior. Nomadic. First described by Shaw & Nodder Naturalist Miscellany 1805. Artist: Roland Green Original hand coloured lithograph.

Based on sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are by S.T.G.. by J. Luntley & Co., printers & publishers. Sixteen images were issued in the set. Rare. Artist S.T.Gill after Hand coloured lithograph

Hornbill. Spectacular Malaysian native. Artist: Audebert Hand coloured copper engraving.

Artist: George Wolfgang Knorr. Hand coloured engraving.

Scarce image of Chapel Street with excellent detail. Artist A.Cooke Hand coloured engraving.

Artist: J.Kuntz.Hand coloured lithograph.

Artist: W.J.Hooker. Hand coloured engraving

Artist: Thomas Ham Hand coloured engraving.

Artist: J.V.Schley. Hand coloured copper engraving.

It was under Pope Julius II (1503 - 1513) that the collecting of antiquities became a passion among wealthy Romans. The sculpture court which he created at the Belvedere became the heart of a culture which almost worshipped the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Artist: Giovanni Battista Falda Original copper engraving

Artist: P.Naumann. Hand coloured engraving.

Superb and rare image from Weinmann's "Phytanthosa". Artist:Johann Weinmann.Original colour printed mezzotint.

Charming and detailed panoramic view of Algiers. Artist unknown. Hand coloured engraving.

Artist: Sulpis & F.Durin Engraving: Firmin, Didot, Paris Original Colour Lithographs

Artist: O.Staudinger Original coloured lithograph.

Possibly looking along Bridge/Burwood Rd. Rare Engraver Rudolph Jenny 1827-1905 Hand coloured engraving

Artist:Andrew Affleck 1874-1935.Original etching signed in pencil lower right.

Artist: Thomas Allom. Hand coloured steel engraving.

Jacob Meets Esau And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.Artist:Jan Luyken.Original copper engravings.

Artist: David Roberts R.A.Original tinted lithographs, Handcoloured.

Minor repairs left margin. Engraver Rudolph Jenny 1827-1905 Hand coloured engraving.

Artist:Louis Auguste De Sainson.Hand coloured lithograph.

Superb French magic vintage poster.Artist:Henri Florit.Original colour lithograph.

Artist: Quain & Wilson.Hand coloured lithograph.

Silver-white canterbury bells. Artist: Basil Besler (1561-1629). Hand coloured copper engravings.

Melpomene in Greek mythology she was the muse of tragedy, despite her joyous singing. She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other. On her head she is shown wearing a crown of cypress. Melpomene is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.Artist: H.Bonnart. Hand coloured copper engraving.

"In the very heart of the interior of the North Island of New Zealand, is the lake of Roto-aire; and upon a promontory jutting into that lake, stands the Pah of Motupoi. The pricipal chief belonging to this remote and strongly fortified Pah,is Mungakahu."..... Condition: Very good.Artist: George French Angas. Hand coloured lithograph.

Artist: Dixon Kemp.Hand coloured engraving.

Artist: Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777-1804 Hand coloured copper engraving

Sydney Ure Smith: 1887-1949 Influential artist, publisher, printmaker, editor, gallery trustee. He first exhibited his etchings in 1914, in 1920 he was a founding member of the P-E & Gallery trustee in 1927.Etching, Signed lower right corner 14/30.

Gould common name; Red Wallaroo. Modern scientific name; Macropus antilopinus Artist: John Gould Hand coloured lithograph (Gould, 1842). Distribution; WA, NT & QLD.

Australian Orchid. Artist:R.D.Fitzgerald. Hand coloured lithograph.

Garden pea, English pea, Green pea. Artist: Basil Besler (1561-1629.Hand coloured copper engraving.

Artist: Alexander Bivort.Hand coloured lithograph.

One of the earliest depictions of "Port Misery" done at the same time as Angas's rival S.T.Gill's views of Port Adelaide. This was the 'New Port' built by the South Australian Company in 1839-40 further up the river. The large building was the Company's warehouse. To the right was the Government wharf. A rare and desirable image from the best and largest suites of colonial South Australian lithographs ever done.Artist:George French Angas. Hand coloured lithograph.

Very rare colonial image of Chinese in Australian at the height of the gold rush period. Artist: George Thompson Original lithograph

Artist: Francesco Faraone Aquila. Original copper engraving.

Bonus plate and an important plate as it is the design for the embossed seal on the lower right corner of each Les Maitre de L'Affiches poster. On 16 occassions the monthly subscription of Les Maitre de L'Affiches contained an umnumbered bonus plate and all of which were original designs. Artist:Jules Cheret French. Original colour lithograph.

The title includes the following information and dedication."Government House and Fort Macquarie. To Oswald Blaxome Esq. Rangers, North Shore & Sydney this print is respectfully dedicated by O.W. Brierly". London Pub June 1st 1852, Ackermann & Co Srand. Rare separately issued print.Original colour lithograph

Artist: Johannes Nieuhof.Hand coloured copper engraving.

Artist born in Canada arrived Melbourne 1852. Huyghue was in Ballarat at the time of the Eureka uprising and made the sketch for this engraving. In 1853 he became clerk of the Office of Mines at Ballarat, in 1862 collector of imposts, and in 1872 clerk of Petty Sessions at Graytown. A rare image. Artist:Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue 1815-1891 Hand coloured engraving

Artist; G.W.Terry.Hand coloured engraving.

Plate 2. Set of 4. In the second plate Hogarth offers a alternative vision of the war’s peaceful aftermath, dominated by a statue of the King and by the details of replenishment.Artist: William Hogarth.Original copper engraving.

Artist: Johannes Nieuhof.Hand coloured cooper engravings.

Colubris la Petittes espece Oyseau de Paradie Oyseau de Paradie tres Rare Colubris Oyseau mouche Artist: Nicholas Robert Hand coloured copper engraving

Artist: Henry Moses. Hand coloured copper engraving.

Chikanobu was a student of Toyohara Kunichika and his original name was Hashimoto. He took both the last name and the second part chika of his master's first name - following an old tradition of the way an artist's name was inherited from master to student. Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912.Original woodblock with embossing.

Artist: Luigi Rossini Original copper engraving.

Artist: David Roberts. Original tinted lithograph.

Modern scientific name: Falco longipennis Widespread habitat, found throughout all of mainland Australia and across northern and eastern Tasmania. Artist: Silvester Diggles 1817-1880 Hand coloured lithograph

From Governor Phillip's account of the settlement of Sydney Cove, the first of the "First Fleet", journals. Artist: J.Stockdale Hand coloured engraving.