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A Young Pitcairn Girl – Original Hand Coloured Engraving – 1845

A beautiful hand coloured engraving from Die Volker des Erdballs ….The Peoples of the Globe According to their Descent and Kindship by German geographer Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (1797-1884).

Junges Madchen von Pitcairn … Young Pitcairn Girl. Finely engraved in steel with vivid colouring and gum Arabic applied to create highlights and depth.

Good condition the paper 25cm x 16cm … the girl’s image 16cm. Would frame as a nice library item for a Bounty/Pitcairn collector.

Price $90.00 unframed … enquire if you wish framing options.

Delightful engraving beautifully coloured

$80.00

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Gazette du Bon Ton Pochoire – Le Séance de Portrait – Monvel -1914

Le Séance de Portrait -1914

A beautiful “Pochoire” by Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1884-1949) for the Paris Gazette du Bon Ton published in 1914 one of the very first Bon Ton images. The Portrait Session. With a magnificent costume from the House of Worth (1858 – 1956). An afternoon outfit in brown velvet, lined with Chinese brick crepe and garnished with Virginia fox.

Price $160.00 unframed. If you would like a framed option let us know.

Most stylish and definitely French

$140.00

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Original Copper Engraving – Egyptian Incunculae – Thomas Shaw – 1736

One of the earliest copper engraving of Egyptian motifs from the rare first edition of Thomas Shaw’s “Travels or Observations Relating to Several parts of Barbary and the Levant” published at the Theatre, Oxford.

The figure in the top left H is Orus [the Earth] turgid with the variety of things he is to produce, K is Anubis [God of the Dead], M Apis, N Cat, O the Cynocephalus (Dog headed man), P Hawk, Q Frog, S Beetle, T the Phallus Oculatus, U the Niloscope, X Pyramid and Y Plectrum.

Very early engraving of Egyptian incunculae

$140.00

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Hermannsburg – West MacDonnell Ranges – Richard Forrester

By acclaimed artist Richard Forrester of the Aranda painted in 2007.

Rich vibrant Hermannsburg watercolour following the style of the great Albert Namatjira. Strong lines and imparting the deep colours of the early morning and late evening light among the West MacDonnell ranges, near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Price $240.00

Quality vibrant Hermannsburg by Forrester

$240.00

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Gazette du Bon Ton Pochoir – Vous Dites Cancan II – Charles Martin – 1913

A striking “Pochoir”, Vous Dites Cancan II, by Charles Martin (1884 – 1934) for the Paris Gazette du Bon Ton in March, 1913. One of the earliest pochoirs. Perfect condition.

Illustrating designs by John Redfern (English, 1853 – 1929) – an afternoon dress for the races in pole print, an envelope jacket, closed by a single large button from which hangs a scarf and from the sleeves hang two acorns. Stunning colour choice heightened with gold.

Price unframed $140.00.

Striking design “at the races” pochoir

$140.00

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Cases de Naturels a Nouka-Hiva (Baie Anna Maria) – Louis LeBreton (Dumont d’Urville Expedition) – 1846

A natural image of the native people of Nouka-Hiva (now Nuka Hiva) the third largest island in the Marquesas.

An original lithograph from a drawing by Louis LeBreton (1818-1866) published as part of the great “Atlas Pittoresque” to accompany “Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee … sous commandement de M.J. Dumont d’Urville”.

Lithographed by Bichebois and produced by Lemercier Benard, Paris 1846. A sizeable image on sturdy paper – 37cms x 28cms to the edge of the printed area bright and clean, with very wide boarders with the odd mark from handling but well away from the image. Overall in very good condition. The quality and intensity of the artwork can be seen in the close up images.

Louis LeBreton replaced Goupil as the official artist (he died at Hobart on the outward voyage) on Dumont d’Urville’s third circumnavigation of 1837-40.

Incidentally, Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stephenson were both to visit and take inspiration from Nouka-Hiva

Fine Polynesian image by Louis LeBreton

$140.00

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