Early Australian + International Art - 2

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Bernard Albinus
Bernard Albinus (German 1697-1770)
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 1749 

These artworks are rare original engraved plates from Bernard Siegfried Albinus’s (1697–1770) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, printed in London by H. Woodfall, for John and Paul Knapton in 1749.

Bernard Albinus was a native of Frankfurt, Germany, where he became Professor of Anatomy at the University of Leiden at the early age of 24. He studied the human body and in collaboration with the artist Jan Wandelaar (1647–1759) made the renown anatomical drawings from human specimens which were to create his place in medical history. They devised a method for the transfer of the accurate and proportional images of anatomy to drawings by using two nets, or grids, of small chords. The number of plates in the book totalled fifty, taking Albinus and artist-engraver Jan Wandelaar over eight years to complete. Their efforts have without doubt produced some of the most precise drawings of the human body ever published, and arguably some of the most beautiful plates in the history of engraving.

These copper-plate engravings came from a set of plates collected by Dr John Thomson M.D., in Naples, Italy, in 1853 and presented to his brother J. W. Thomson of Melbourne, Australia.

Contact gallery to discuss which pieces are available.
​Prices from $450 Incl. GST
R E Minchin
Richard Ernest Minchin (1831-1893)
Mouth of the Murray From Hindmarsh Island, circa 1860
Pen, ink and watercolour
8.5 cm
$990 Incl GST
* The large sandhill to the left of the image is Barkers Knoll which disappeared in the mid 19th century. See Art Gallery of South Australia for other related works.

US Paddlesteamers
​E W Clay  (lithographer) U.S.A. 1799 - 1857
Steam Packet Neptune of Charleston, South Carolina, 1838
Lithograph with extensive hand colouring 
65 x 90 cm
Prov: Early label to the reverse from Kennedy Galleries, New York with stock number. Kennedy Galleries specialised in high quality and rare American Fine Prints and Paintings. $1,850 incl GST

*Incredibly rare and early lithograph after a painting by Frederick Huge. The paddle steamer is extensively described in the lower margin. This artwork appears not to be held in the US Library of Congress catalogue. 
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Picture
George Cruikshank (UK 1792-1878)
Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, circa 1851 Hand-coloured etching 
15 x 39 cm 
$1,250 incl GST

  * A rare humorous satirical print directly related to colonial Australia which was issued with The Comic Almanac for 1851.
Moghul miniatures
A pair of 19th Century Moghul miniatures depicting
Mirza Moghul (1817-1855) and Prince Jewan Basket
Each miniature approximately 2.5cm width
These finely painted small artworks were exhibited at the the Pakistani Embassy, Canberra in 1969 and are Illustrated in 
​A Perspective in History and Art from Ancient Times, Pakistan. 1969, p.50.                              
$750 the pair incl GST
RT Ross
A naïve drawing of The Dancing Lesson by R.T. Ross, A.R.S.A.
Watercolour
Inscribed and dated 1866
13 x 14 cm
Price: $280 ​Incl. GST
Thomas Worlidge
Thomas Worlidge (English 1700 - 1766)
A group of 18th Century Engravings of Gems from various nobleman's collections. England 1768
29 x 32 cm (framed)
Price: $280 each Incl. GST
* others available
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir (French 1841 - 1819)
​Sur la Plage, a Berneval
Etching
Signed in the plate
14 x 9.5 cm
$1,250 incl GST

old master drawing
An early Old Master pen and ink drawing.
21 x 13 cm
signed lower left
$275 incl GST
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