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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 #:
  278
• Lot Description:
  Guérard, Johann Joseph Eugen von. Eugène von Guérard’s Australian Landscapes
  A Series of 24 Tinted Lithographs illustrative of the most striking and picturesque features of the Landscape Scenery of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia & Tasmania, Drawn from Nature and Lithographed by the Artist, with Letterpress Descriptions of each View… Oblong elephant folio, handcoloured lithographed title-leaf and 24 handcoloured lithographed plates, each plate with a single leaf of letterpress description, repairs in the margin plate 14, in the original plum cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt on the front board, rebacked and recornered at an early date in calf. Melbourne, Printed and Published by Hamel & Ferguson, [1867].
• Notes:
  Rare first edition of this famous view book, an important work by colonial Australia’s most accomplished academic artist. This superb collection of High Romantic views of the Australian landscape is based on the most admired oil paintings executed by von Guérard during his first 15 years in Australia, each lithographed by the artist himself. A painstaking artist, noted for his meticulous attention to detail, he also took extraordinary care to ensure that the handcolouring of each plate was properly managed so that there is an appropriate relationship between the original painting and the printed image. “Eugen von Guérard’s Australian Landscapes is the last of the sumptuously produced Australian plate books. By the 1870s the rôle of the topographical plate book was being replaced by the still novel photograph album which offered both a cheaper and a more faithful representation of far-off and familiar places. It is fitting that this last, magnificent finale to the grand plate book tradition should be the work of colonial Australia’s most accomplished academic artist” (Wantrup). Only about 500 copies of Australian Landscapes were produced, many of which have subsequently been broken up for framing; consequently the complete set is now extremely scarce on the market. Ferguson, 10134a; Kerr, pp. 330-2; Wantrup, 257.
• Estimate:
  A$24,000 - 36,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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