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Prints — Engravings, Lithographs etc - Art - Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
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Prints - Engravings, Lithographs etc
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| *** | Matthew Flinders (1774 - 1814), Timor and some neighbouring Islands: by M. Flinders, Commr. Of H.M.S. Investigator 1803., copper engraving with attractive hand colouring, 48 x 63 cm (image); framed 68 x 85 cm (overall). From Flinders' a voyage to Terra… | *** |  |
| *** | Engravings: 1790 hand-coloured engravings of reptiles or spiders, from white's 'Journal of a voyage to New South Wales', all window mounted, each overall 35 x 30 cm (or 30 x 35 cm). (9 items) | *** |  |
| *** | An antique Australian leather work folk art picture frame, housing a colour lithograph titled 'Australian Wildflowers', 19th century, 69 cm x 52 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Peter Mazell, [Ireland/Britain, 1733 - 1808], Martin cat., hand-coloured copper engraved plate from, the voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany bay, [J. Stockdale, London, 1789], 23 x 17 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) the Divine Comedy, woodcut in colours, artist's proof, signed in lower margin at right, 24 x 18.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Law Courts Melbourne colour photo-lithograph, c.1890 Phillip-Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co. Ld. 28.5 x 35 cm (matted, 51.5 x 56 cm overall). | *** |  |
| *** | George Baxter (1804-1867), The Gems Of The Great Exhibition, No.3, Baxter print, mid 19th century, 12 x 24 cm, 31 x 41 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Norbertine Von Bresslern-Roth (1891 - 1978), Young Lion, linocut, endorsed 'Handdruck', titled and signed in lower margin, 17 x 22.5 cm; framed 40 x 44 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | Cover Artwork For 'Digest of Digests' Magazine: image for September edition showing a Sugar Cane harvesting scene, 50 x 37 cm, on board, c.1950s. | *** |  |
| *** | Titanic 'White star Line' memorial paper souvenir serviette titled 'Souvenir in Affectionate Remembrance of the Captain, Mates, crew, & passengers Who lost their Lives by the Foundering of the World's largest liner S. S. Titanic...'. Rare surviving piece… | *** |  |
| *** | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81, twice British Prime Minister 1868 & 1874-80), signature on piece; together with engraving 'The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G.' | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Victoria Racing Club Spring Meeting. 1877. The Melbourne Cup Race: Bird's-Eye View of the Course', double-page engraving from 'The Australasian Sketcher',1877, window mounted | *** |  |
| *** | A painted female portrait on ivory in timber and ivory frame, a lithograph portrait print in Florentine frame and a Renaissance style portrait print, 20th century, (3 items), the largest 18 x 14 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Aaron Arrowsmith & Samuel Lewis, New Holland, circa 1804, hand coloured copper plate engraving, image 20.5 x 25 cm; framed 37 x 42 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | Cam Knuckey (Australian), blue bowl Anemones, hand coloured silkscreen 7/10, signed and titled lower margin, 35 x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Sven Brasch (1886-1970), Zoologisk have, 1924, the hippopotamus, printed by Sylvester Hvid, Copenhagen, 79 x 55 cm (sight);, (framed & glazed, 108.5 x 79 cm overall). | *** |  |
| *** | Frank Shepard Fairey (b.1970), black earth Society, screenprint, signed and editioned [271/600] in pencil below image, overall 61 x 91 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Yosl Bergner (born 1920, Austria/Australia/Isr'l), portrait of a woman with Tacks, colour lithograph artist's proof, signed lower right, 56 x 42 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Soldiers of the Queen', chromolithograph, printed in London, 19th century, 58 x 81 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Etching 'La Celestine' c1968. Nicely framed in brass, window mount & glazed with documentation from Gallery Huntly Canberra c.1975. 9 x 6 cm. Superb condit | *** |  |
| *** | Salvador Dali (1904-1989), (surrealist landscape with fox), lithograph, 194/450, signed in pencil lower right, 58 x 80 cm, 75 x 96 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | An antique Tasmanian huon pine picture frame, with an 1865 colour lithograph of Captain cook, mid 19th century, the frame internal 39 x 48 cm, 51 x 60 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | David Hockney 'Six fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney' [Petersburg Press, London, 1970] h/c. also, '72 Drawings by David Hockney' [Jonathan Cape, London, 1971] s/c. | *** |  |
| *** | Lucas Van Leyden (1494-1533), (portrait of a man with a skull), antique engraving, 18 x 15 cm, 36 x 30 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827), The Comforts of Bath: Twelve Characteristic Engravings, London, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No.50 Piccadilly, each image individually framed and glazed, The 12 pieces are all 42 x 46 cm overall, This series of hand-coloured… | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine) 'The Zebra Or Dog-Faced Dasyurus,Didelphis Cynocephala, Harris' coloured engraving plate from George Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom', [published by G.B. Whitaker, London, June 1825]. Note: This is the first published full size… | *** |  |
| *** | Australian Fauna: A collection of early etchings, noted the Kanguroo' from the first French edition of Cook (1774), 'Opossum van Van Diemens Land', 'THiere aus Neu-Holland', 'A fish of New South Wales' by Mazell (1789), 'Halmature Agile' (Werner, after Le… | *** |  |
| *** | Isidore Stanislas Helman (1743 - 1806), Fete Donnee Aux Viellards Par L'Empereur Kien-Long, Le 14 Fevrier 1785, (feast for Elders given by emperor Kien-Long), pair of copper engravings, text including engraver, date, 1788, title and caption in plate above… | *** |  |
| *** | Jules Cheret (1836 - 1931), Grands Magasins Aux Buttes Chaumont......, lithograph in colours, Imp. Chaix, Paris, 1890, 120.5 x 86 cm; framed 133 x 100 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | Longstaff, William Frederick (1879-1953), 'The Immortal Shrine', colour lithograph, signed by the artist lower right, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall, 77 x 52 cm. Ex Bill Woodfull collection | *** |  |
| *** | Psychedelic Posters, Hambly Studios #5 and #16, California - Blacklight / Silkscreens, both 58 x 44 cm. (2). | *** |  |
| *** | (After) Algernon Talmage (1871-1939), the Founding of Australia, colour lithograph, circa 2000, limited edition of 2000, 44 x 54 cm, 67 x 77 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Noel Counihan (1913-1986), Mexican girl, artist proof lithograph, edition of 120, signed and titled in the lower margin 'Counihan, '70', 62 x 43 cm, 79 x 59 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | George Stubbs (after), Kanguroo, copper engraving, titled 'Quadrupedo chiamato kanguroo ritrovato su la costa della Nuova Olanda'. 21 x 16 cm. 1770's rendition by Italian artist, Filippo de Grado based on the painting by George Stubbs which hangs in The… | *** |  |
| *** | [Tribal warfare van Dieman's Land], view taken in the interior of New Holland, near the torrent of Kirkham, Jaques Arago engraving from his 1818 sketch made during Louis Freycinet's visit to eastern Tasmania aboard 'L'Uranie'. The engraving was prepared… | *** |  |
| *** | Cover Artwork For 'Digest of Digests' Magazine: image for unassigned edition showing a female skier against a winter alpine backdrop, 48 x 35 cm, on board, c.1950s. | *** |  |
| *** | David Roberts (1796 - 1864), Jerusalem, April 9th, 1830, hand-coloured lithograph from, the holy land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, (1839), 32.5 x 48 cm. (laid down on card). | *** |  |
| *** | View of the Lady Nelson in the Thames wood engraving from 'The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802...' by James Grant, published in London in 1803. 14 x 19.5 cm (image).… | *** |  |
| *** | Four assorted framed antique coloured engravings of ships, 19th century, the largest 62 x 81 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | George Baxter 'News from Australia' and 'Australia, news from Home', pair of prints in maple frames, 19th century, (2 items), 11 x 14.5 cm each | *** |  |
| *** | Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977), (untitled snow goose and chick), screenprint, signed lower right 'Benjamin Chee Chee, '75', 45 x 60 cm, 61 x 77 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Filippo Arena (1708 - 1789), flower studies, (2), from 'La Natura, e Cultura dei Fiori', hand-coloured copper engravings, 1771, each 20 x 30 cm and framed individually, overall 40 x 49 cm. (2 items). | *** |  |
| *** | Three antique Australian scene coloured lithographs and prints in maple frames, 19th century the largest 43 x 54 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | 'Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania' by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924], signed by the author and numbered 655/1000, with 50 tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards intact, some signs of wear in particular to the spine, Co | *** |  |
| *** | George Baxter portrait print of Madame Jenny Lind, 19th century, 17 x 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-1913) i.) Great Sulphur-crested cockatoo II.) Three Parrots, (New Zealand) III.) Ka-Ka Parrot and Prince of Essling's Parrot IV.) Leadbeater's Cockatoo V.) Bloodstained Cockatoo VI.) Pale Headed Parrakeet and Yellow Cheeked… | *** |  |
| *** | David Tulloch (?-1877) hand coloured engraving titled 'Golden Point, Ballarat, 1851', engraved and printed by Thomas Ham, Melbourne in 1852 | *** |  |
| *** | Kevin Charles (Pro) Hart (1928-2006): A signed group comprising a Christmas card feeaturing 'Birds in Swamp' signed below image; a lino-cut dated '83' in the image, endorsed 'A.P.' at lower left and signed Lr; a larger lino-cut, also dated '83', titled… | *** |  |
| *** | Tarella Quin & Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, before the lamps are Lit, [Melbourne, George Robertson, 1911], oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards, 189pp., a compilation of six children's stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. | *** |  |
| *** | Abel Pfeffermann Pann (1883 - 1963), Bereshit: Genesis, from the Creation Until the Deluge, twenty five original coloured lithographs reproduced by the Author, issued by the Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd. Jerusalem. C1925, half-calf binding with gilt… | *** |  |
| *** | David Tulloch (?-1877) hand coloured engraving titled 'Great Meeting of Gold Diggers, Dec 5th 1851', engraved and printed by Thomas Ham in Melbourne, 1852 | *** |  |
| *** | Cricket group: 1928-29 England team photograph with title and players names printed on mount, overall 38 x 30 cm; plus cricket prints including 'The Walks' lithograph by Joseph Murray Ince (London, 1838); 'Famous English Cricketers - 1880' colour… | *** |  |
| *** | Kevin Charles (Pro) Hart (1928-2006): A signed group comprising a Christmas card feeaturing 'Birds in Swamp' signed below image; a lino-cut dated '83' in the image, endorsed 'A.P.' at lower left and signed Lr; a larger lino-cut, also dated '83', titled… | *** |  |
| *** | John Gould (1804-1881) Onychogalea Unguifer coloured engraving 50 x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Goldfield's engraving, Boer War engraving, and a facsimile print 'North View Of Eagle Hawk Neck', all framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 39 x 48 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Isidoro de Antillon (1778 - 1814) 'El grande Oceano desde el paralelo 64, de latit Septentrional, hasta el 57, de latitud Austral, Para el Curso de Geografia de Don Ysidoro Antillon, de orden de S.M., Ano 1801', copper plate engraving, Madrid, 1801; with… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Yarra Yarra from below Price's Bridge,1853' lithographed from original drawing by E. Thomas, published by F. Varley, 21 x 31 cm, 43 x 55 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Two antique coloued lithographs of Melbourne streets: I.) Collins Street (by Francois Cogne), II.) Elizabeth Street (by Nettleton), 52 x 66 cm each overall | *** |  |
| *** | Axel Herman Haig (1835 - 1921), Cathedral Interior, etching, signed in the margin, lower right, 68 x 46 cm; framed 102 x 77 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | Frank Shepard Fairey (b.1970), Just angels rising, offset lithograph, 2021, signed and dated in pencil below image, #346 from an edition of 450, overall 60 x 46 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | John Speed (1552 - 1629), 'Leicester, both Countye and Citie described, the Honorable Famylies that have had titles of Earls thereof. With other accidents therein observed.' copper plate engraving with later hand-colouring; circa 1616, with inset town… | *** |  |
| *** | Kevin Charles 'Pro' Hart (1928-2006), 'The Miner', etching, signed lower right, artist's proof, image size 20 x 15 cm, framed and glazed, overall 46 x 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | After Fowles, Joseph 'The Jews Synagogue, Sydney', copper plate engraving from 'Sydney in 1848 From Drawings by Joseph Fowles; 17.5 x 22.5 cm, the Following Explanation Accompanied This Image in the Original Publication: Jewish Synagogue.--At Length the… | *** |  |
| *** | Catalogue of plants under Cultivation in the Melbourne Botanic garden by Guilfoyle, published by John Ferres, Government printer in 1883. A presentation copy in Guilfoyle's hand of a very rare Melbourne work. 'Prof. Halford with the Author's Kind Regards,… | *** |  |
| *** | Angas, George French (1822-86), gold Washing, Summer-Hill Creek, below Lewis Ponds, lithograph with, handcolouring (Sydney, 1851), 41 x 31 cm. Small repair at top, otherwise good condition | *** |  |
| *** | Hedley Fitton (1857-1929): 'Cardinal Beaufort’s Chantry, Winchester Cathedral' etching (1925), signed by artist lower right, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 57 x 75 cm | *** |  |
| *** | LeRoy Nieman (1921-2012): American Expressionist artist screen print 'Statue of Liberty'. Printed signature, window mounted, framed & glazed. 70 x 57 cm, VG condition | *** |  |
| *** | Robert Jacks Robert Jacks: his Bloomsday book. (Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004.) Folio, embossed with an original collage design by the artist on front panel, housed in striking red and black clamshell box, illustrated throughout and… | *** |  |
| *** | John Gould (1804-1881) Halmaturus Greyi coloured engraving 50 x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Marc Chagall (1877-1985), Circus Fan Dancer, lithograph, edition and signed in lower margin '29/250, Marc Chagall', 30 x 20 cm | *** |  |
| *** | August Petermann, 'Specialkarte von Australien in 9 Blattern. Nach originalen & Officiellen Quellen von a. Peterman 1875', lithograph in colour; nine sheets, each 40 x 48 cm. (Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1875). Housed in purpose-made buckram covered folding… | *** |  |
| *** | Will Longstaff (1879-1953), I.) Menin gate at midnight, II.) the immortal shrine, colour lithographs, housed in original frames with title plaques, 49 x 69 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Louis-Jules Masselot (artist); Thomas Marie Auguste Blanchard (lithographer), Danse a cloche-pied des indigenes de l'ile de Paques, lithograph with hand colouring, being a plate from 'Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate la Venus, pendant les annees… | *** |  |
| *** | Frank Shepard Fairey (1970 -.), Make Art Not War - Obey, offset lithograph, signed and numbered '12' in lower margin, 91 x 60 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Antique lithographs and engravings including Tasmanian tiger, dingo, possum and platypus, plus 'Neuhollaender' engraving, 19th century, (5 items), the largest 27 x 37 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | A.M. Mallet (1630 - 1706), 'Continent Meridional Austral ou Antarctique', copper engraving, from the German edition of 'Description de l'Univers', [Frankfurt, 1686], image size 15.2 x 11.5 mm; framed 34 x 28.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Von Gunst, for Calmet's Dictionary 'The Jewish Passover', c1745 copper engraving; titled, signed and numbered in the plate; 32 x 21 cm. A rather inaccurate domestic scene, with the particpants standing around a table; no matzoh, wine, candles, etc. Visible | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Billich (1934- ), 'Reach For the Sky' silkscreen print by Charles Billich for AFL Centenary, titled at base, signed by the artist and numbered '134/249', window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 122 x 94 cm | *** |  |
| *** | South Africa Victoria Cross Heroes, the Queen and the Sightless Captain -, a touching Episode, colour lithograph in period frame, c1900, overall 80 x 64 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Lonsdale Street Melbourne colour photo-lithograph, c.1890 Phillip-Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co. Ld. 28.5 x 36 cm (matted, 51.5 x 56 cm overall). | *** |  |
| *** | Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779 - 1842), 'Plan de L'ile Maria' and 'Plan de l'Ile King' together on one sheet, circa 1811, copper engravings with hand colouring, 65 x 43 cm 0verall. | *** |  |
| *** | 'Tete D'UN Guerrier de La Nouvelle Zelande' French 18th century engraving from Cook's voyages. Plate 12. Sheet size 26 x 21 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Crempa Holsatiae opp.(idum), Ioannis Ranzovii equitis aurati industria munitiss.(ima), hand coloured copper engraving from Braun-Hogenberg, circa 1590, 17 x 48 cm; framed 49 x 93 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | John Speed (1552 - 1629), 'Buckingham both Shyre and shire town describ.' circa 1676, copper plate engraving with later hand-colouring; with inset town plans of Buckingham and Redding (which are the earliest recorded) 38 x 50 cm; framed 58 x 70 cm overall. | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Worth (American, 1834-1917), lithographs, most from the horse-racing/trotting series - 'A Bad Break', 'A Side Wheeler 'Bustin' a Trotter', 'A Hard Road to Travel', 'Unbolted!', 'Bolted!', 'Taking a Smash' & 'When the Flowing Tide Comes In'; four… | *** |  |
| *** | Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-99), 'Narcissus Leaning' lithograph, signed lower right and inscribed A/P in pencil on margin, 46 x 66 cm, framed and glazed | *** |  |
| *** | Waldemar Swierzy (Polish, 1931 - 2013), Cyrk (A lion about to jump through a hoop), lithograph in colours, 1972. 'Wda 2 W-WA Novogrodzka 64A Zam.356. Naklad 3,300' at lower right, 97 x 67 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Three Broinowski Australiana engravings, 35 x 28 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Louis Icart (1888-1950), Le chat noir, coloured etching, signed lower right Louis Icart, artist blind stamp lower left, copyright line upper left dated 1926, Paris, 40 x 36 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An antique coloured lithograph of a steam powered sailing ship, 19th century, 67 x 98 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | John Thomson New Holland and Asiatic Isles hand-coloured engraving, 1814 overall 54 x 72 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | The Gap, Sydney heads, c.1895 colour photo-lithograph, Phillip-Stephan photo litho & Typographic process Co. Ltd, framed & glazed, overall 61 x 67 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Sir William Jardine (Scotland, 1800-1874) 'Thylacinus cynocephalus' hand coloured engraving, plate No.5 (Tasmanian tiger), engraved by William Lizars for the Naturalist's library, circa 1835, 10 x 16 cm, 23 x 29 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | Cover Artwork For 'Digest of Digests' Magazine: image for October edition showing a young couple admiring an aquarium, 50 x 37 cm, on board, c.1950s. | *** |  |
| *** | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), untitled, Verve 29-30 Illustration I first edition, lithograph, printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris 1954, with CofA verso;, 24 x 32 cm; framed (63 x 73 cm overall). | *** |  |
| *** | Two antique coloured engravings of Melbourne, the larger 47 x 37 cm overall | *** |  |