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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  270
• Lot Description:
  Chevalier, Nicholas. N. Chevalier’s Album of Chromo Lithographs [cover title]
  Large folio, twelve chromolithographed plates, each mounted on a stiff white sheet, one with the original small printed title label on the verso (supplied in facsimile on nine others), in the original portfolio of half calf and cloth (rebacked and recornered), title lettered in gilt on the front board, bottom of spine little defective; lacking the plate of Dargo Valley, Queensland, in the portfolio which is, however, present framed and is included in the lot. Melbourne, Charles Troedel, [1865].
• Notes:
  Rare. This was the first album of chromolithographs to have been published in Australia. The album collects together Chevalier’s best Victorian landscapes, most painted during the several tours he undertook through the Victorian wilderness with, among others, Eugen von Guérard and Georg von Neumayer. In this important publication Chevalier and Troedel introduced into Australia the comparatively novel technique of chromolithography – a seminal contribution to the Australian plate book genre, to be followed within months by S.T. Gill’s Australian Sketchbook. His Album of Chromo Lithographs was, to some extent, Chevalier’s final Australian statement: he departed for New Zealand within months and within a year he had won Royal patronage which took him round the world and back to Europe. “Chevalier’s book is the first printed expression of High Victorian taste in landscape art by a key figure in the late romantic era of Australian colonial art. It is furthermore the first major plate book to draw its inspiration from the landscape of Victoria, a landscape that would inspire the greatest works of Australian painting in the remaining decades of the century, ultimately inspiring the seminal works of the Heidelberg School...” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 17329; Kerr, pp. 147-9; Wantrup, 256.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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