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Augustin de Saint-Aubin
A society of men and women looking at prints and paintings
1757
SOLD
Pierre Drevet
Portrait of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
1706
$1,800.00
A classic Drevet portrait engraving
Jean-Joseph Balechou
Jean de Jullienne
1752
$2,000.00
Portrait of the great collector and champion of Watteau
Joseph de Longueil
after Charles Eisen
The Four Times of the Day
1770s
$2,000.00
A very decorative set of etchings in gilt wood frames
Abraham Bosse
Feeding the hungry
plate 1 from
The Seven Acts of Mercy
1635-40
$2,800.00
Fine impression from one of Bosse’s iconic series of prints
Grégoire Huret
Allegorical scene showing Louis XIII with Prudence and Temperance and the Virgin Mary
(Allegory of the Siege of La Rochelle)
about 1638-43
$2,000.00
An engraving from the Age of the Musketeers
Bernard Picart
La Félicité de la Régence
(The Felicity of the Regency)
1704/1710
$2,300.00
A spectacular allegorical engraving after Rubens
Pierre Drevet
The sacrifice of Abraham
1707
$2,500.00
A magnificent example of Pierre Drevet’s engraving of a narrative subject
comte de Caylus and Nicolas Lesueur
Martyre de Saint Ange, Carme
plate 113 from
the Recueil Crozat
1729/40
$2,200.00
A brilliant impression of the combination of etching and woodcut used to simulate the effects of a pen, ink and wash drawing
Pieter Schenk I
after Simon Vouet
Venus and Adonis
circa 1700
$2,000.00
A rich velvety impression
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
The Scribe (Zechariah in the Temple)
1781
$2,000.00
Brilliant, velvety impression
Nicolas Pitau the Elder
Gaspard de Fieubet, Chancellor to Queen Marie-Thérèse of France
1662
$1,700.00
Brilliant impression
François Chéreau the Elder
Jean Baptiste Louis Picon
1719
$2,200.00
A virtuoso display of engraving
Louis-Jacques Cathelin
Portrait of Joseph Marie Terray
1777
$2,500.00
A tour de force of engraving
Massacre of De Langle, Lemanon
& ten others of the Two Crews
1798
$1,500.00
The massacre of the captain of the Astrolabe, Fleuriot De Langle, and ten of his crew in Samoa in December 1787.
Wreck of the Two Boats at Port des Français
1798
$1,500.00
La Pérouse strikes tragedy in Lituya Bay, Alaska
Chart of the Great Pacific Ocean
1798
$1,200.00
Map of the routes taken by La Pérouse in the Pacific
Inhabitants and Monuments
of Easter Island
1798
$1,500.00
French explorer La Pérouse on Rapanui Easter Island
French School
circle of Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
Egyptian subject
late-17th/early-18th-century
$3,000.00
F. D. Gray
The “Terawhiti” tugboat at Patent Slip, Evans Bay, Wellington
c. 1930
$800.00
The Terawhiti tugboat in dry dock at Evans Bay
Fred Ellis
St Paul’s Cathedral Wellington
1945
$1200.00
Jean Baptiste Le Prince
Head of a woman à la turque or à la russe
1757-1762
SOLD
Arthur James Turrell
Feast Day at the Duomo, Milan
circa 1920
$1,200.00
A large and impressive etching with drypoint and plate tone
Honoré Daumier(?)
Studies of heads
nd
$2,000.00
A very fine pastiche or possibly autograph?
Harry Linley Richardson
Wellington from Kelburn near Bowling Green
1916
SOLD
Rare early etched view of Wellington
Copy of Crispijn de Passe the Younger
King Louis XIII of France jousting
after 1623
$500.00
A good contemporary copy of an illustration to a famous book on horsemanship
The Death of Nelson
1812
$2,000.00
A large deluxe hand-coloured engraving of the death of Admiral Lord Nelson
Homme & Femme de la Nouvelle Zelande
1806
$800.00
A somewhat romanticised view of Maori from a French encyclopaedia of peoples of the world
Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677)
Portrait of Anthony van Dyck
1660-1675
SOLD
A rich velvety mezzotint by one of the earliest practitioners of the medium
What is this my son Tom
1774
$1,500.00
A satire on the English macaroni
John Keyse Sherwin
after William Hodges
Otago
1777
$800.00
Edwin (Ted) Dutch
Flying Machine I
1972
$1,500.00
A classic ’70s screenprint
Smyrne
circa 1690
$800.00
A rare proof state for a costume book
Salvator Rosa
Figurine
1653-58
$500.00
An elegant figure by the notoriously irascible Neapolitan
James Fraser Scott
Bridge of Sighs Venice
1920s
$2,000.00
A rare colour linocut by Dunedin-born painter James Fraser Scott
Barry Cleavin
First state – Study for Transplant V
1968
$1,200.00
An early work by one of New Zealand’s leading printmakers
Kathy M Reilly
Fly Dragon Fly
2016
SOLD
Clever use of maculature to suggest movement
Betty Curnow
Three figures
1979?
$1,500.00
A print by one of the iconic subjects of New Zealand portraiture
Ozeanisch-Australische Kultur I
1893-1897
$600.00
Ornamentale Tätowierung
1902-1908
SOLD
Cases du Pāhā (Village)
de Kororaréka
(Nouvelle Zelande) 1841
SOLD
An early view of Kororāreka in the Bay of Islands just after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi
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