The artist is 1894 Air Mechanic Sydney English, Aeroplane Repair Section, stationed at the time at the Australian Flying Corps Training Depot at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was a twenty-something iron founder from Northcote in Victoria when he enlisted on 27 April 1917; his artistic skills would appear to be innate..... More

Bondi Junction, ETT Imprint, 1998. Number 78 of only 100 copies signed by both the author and the artist, with an original signed etching (187 × 190 mm). Hand-bound by Robyn Tait, who has signed and inscribed the verso of the title in pencil 'For Alec'. This book of verse..... More

Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), initialled in the image 'R.C.F.' (Rosa Catherine Fiveash). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible for the..... More

Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 44 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More

Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 43 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More

Frenchs Forest, The Craftsman's Press, 1984. Number 171 of only 200 copies signed by the artist, with the original etching (signed and numbered to match, sheet size 330 × 255 mm; image size 200 × 165 mm). More

The watercolour on paper (135 × 227 mm) is unmounted; apart from a tiny light crease to one top corner, it is in fine condition. It is undated, but probably circa 1900. Harry Pelling Gill (1855-1916), art curator and teacher, was born in England; he trained and taught at the..... More

[London, Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co., after 1865]. The complete series comprises twelve views of the Australian goldfields in the manner of S.T. Gill; the set 'was probably issued loose, without any title or wrapper' (Wantrup, page 327). The two plates on..... More

William Otho Hewett (1887-1942) enlisted in Adelaide on 26 November 1914; he 'served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment [at Gallipoli] and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Headquarters during the First World War. Trained as a designer is South Australia, he joined the ANZAC Divisional Headquarters at Romani as a panoramic..... More

[London, McLean & Co., 1847]. 'Scenes in the Bush of Australia. By A Squatter' was originally published as 'an oblong quarto volume consisting of two fine lithographs within green titling-wrappers. [The wrappers (not present here) stated the work was 'Published for the benefit of the Famine Relief Fund of the..... More

May's series was unpublished, but dates from circa 1890; it was based on original sketches by Gill and Hamilton (five each) from upwards of fifty years earlier. May's ten plates were printed in brown ink on light brown arch-topped backgrounds (printed surface 150 × 205 mm) on uniform sheets of..... More

The artist is unidentified, but he was possibly attached to No. 9 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF (9 RSU). The Australian War Memorial website states that in 1945 three artists already serving with the RAAF were seconded to the RAAF War History Section as artists - Harold Freedman (1915-1999), Max..... More

Adelaide, English & Soward, Architects, Cowra Chambers, Grenfell Street, 1907. The main drawings, in black ink and up to six different watercolours, comprise the Front Elevation (West), South Elevation, Ground Plan, Back Elevation, and Cellar; there are also four sections and a number of minor details. It has been signed..... More