Cabinet of Discoveries

MEU006
Carte réduite des Iles Britanniques, Seconde feuille. Partie Septentrionale de l'Angleterre Jacques Nicolas Bellin, from his Atlas Hydrographique Français, Paris 1756-65 .

Chart, showing Northern and Central England and Southernmost Scotland and part of Ireland. Rhumb lines and. soundings and sandbanks in the sea areas. On land counties and larger towns are shown. Decorative cartouche.

555 x 853 mm (22 x 34 in). Uncoloured. Fine impression in excellent condition. $300

AT002

View of the Governor’s Retreat, New Norfolk, Van Diemens Land

By Joseph Lycett from

Views in Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemens Land Delineated, in Fifty Views with Descriptive Letter Press, London, 1825.

Lycett (c1775-1828) is one of the earliest artists to depict Australian subjects. He was convicted of forgery in 1811 and sentenced to 14 years transportation to New South Wales.

He arrived in Sydney in 1814 where he soon re-offended. However his artistic ability was a skill in demand in the young colony: he was assigned to work as an artist and had Governor Lachlan MacQuarie as patron.

His most famous work, from which this prints comes, was produced in England, shortly after his return in 1822.

230 x 320mm (9 x 12½ in) Engraving with original hand colour; excellent condition, in acid free mount. SOLD

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AT003

Mount Nelson near Hobart Town from near Mulgrave Battery, Van Diemens Land.

By Joseph Lycett from

Views in Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemens Land Delineated, in Fifty Views with Descriptive Letter Press, London, 1825

Lycett (c1775-1828) is one of the earliest artists to depict Australian subjects. He was convicted of forgery in 1811 and sentenced to 14 years transportation to New South Wales.

He arrived in Sydney in 1814 where he soon re-offended. However his artistic ability was a skill in demand in the young colony: he was assigned to work as an artist and had Governor Lachlan MacQuarie as patron.

His most famous work, from which this prints comes, was produced in England, shortly after his return in 1822.

230 x 320mm (9 x 12½ in) Engraving with original hand colour; excellent condition, in acid free mount. SOLD

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AT006

Vue de Hobart Town prise de la Rade (View of Hobart Town taken from the bay)

By Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887)

De Sainson was the official artist on Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842)’s ship, l’Astrolabe, which visited Hobart in 1827 during his round-the-world journey of exploration.

This plate comes from the official report of that journey, Voyage de decouvertes de ‘l'Astrolabe’: execute par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, published n Paris in 1833.

260 x 380mm (10 x 15 in) Lithograph, uncoloured, very good condition, in acid-free mount. $1500.00

AT004
Vue d’Hobart-town prise de l’est (Hobart Town, view from the East)

By Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887)

De Sainson was the official artist on Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842)’s ship, l’Astrolabe, which visited Hobart in 1827 during his round-the-world journey of exploration.

This plate comes from the official report of that journey, Voyage de decouvertes de ‘l’Astrolabe’: execute par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, published n Paris in 1833.

310 x 450mm (12 x 18 in) Lithograph, uncoloured, very good condition, in acid-free mount.$1200.00 SOLD

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BA007
Fragmens d’un Tombeau (fragments of a tomb at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

590 x 380mm (23 x 15 in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $980.00

BA006
Arc de Triomphe á Palmyre (Triumphal Arch at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

400 x 560mm (15 x 22 in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $1000.00

BA005
Fragmens trouvés dans les ruines de Palmyre (Fragments found in the ruins of Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

460 x 280mm (18 x 11 in)) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $1000.00

BA004
Entablement d’un Tombeau Détruit (Entablature from a destroyed tomb at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

460 x 280mm (18 x 11 in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $660.00

BA003
Restauration d’un Tombeau Détruit (Restored view of a destroyed tomb – at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

455 x 280mm (18 x 11 in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $660.00

BA002
Reception de l’Artiste Voyageur chez le chef des Arabes a Palmyre (the artist’s meeting with the Arab chieftain at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

410 x 555mm (16 x 21½ in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $1250.00

BA001
Vue de l’une des Portes ou Arcades de la Grande Gallerie de Palmyre (View of one of the gateways or arcades in the great gallery at Palmyra)

Etching from Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte. 1799-1800, by Louis François Cassas, French, born 1756, died 1872.

Cassas who had been trained in both the Neoclassical and Rococo schools of painting specialised in Antiquities. In 1784 he accompanied the new French Ambassador to the sublime Port in Istanbul and travelled extensively in the Levant where he pictured archaeological sites, many of which had not previously been recorded. This book, published in 1797 was the result. He later became drawing professor at the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory and also produced many maquettes of classical statues which were highly influential in the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

The sumptuous etchings from this book are deservedly admired. His work precedes and is regarded by many as artistically superior to that of his English counterpart, David Roberts. Palmyra, an oasis in the south of modern Syria, controlled much of the trade between India and Europe from the fall of Petra in106 AD, until conquered by the Romans in 297. It became extremely wealthy and developed its own distinctive but strongly Hellenised architecture.

295 x 435mm (11¾ x 17 in) Very good condition. Some extra folds near centrefold. $1000.00