Sebra Prints
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
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Antique Prints
Art: Australian
Colonial Paintings & Prints
Prints
Voyages to Australia
Sebra Prints opened in August 2003 out of a passion for antique prints, and a desire to offer good quality, original prints, across a wide range of topics.
We specialize in antique engravings and lithographs from 17th,18th and 19th centuries as well as some early 20th century works. We cover a huge range of styles, artists and subject matter.
Sebra Prints is owned by Dafydd Davies has over 20 years experience dealing with antique prints, both in Australia and in London.
The name Sebra comes from an admiration for the mezzotint engraving of a zebra after George Stubbs which is titled 'Sebra'.
Contact Information
Email: daf@sebraprints.com.au
Phone: +61 (0) 410 520 100
Website: http://www.sebraprints.com.au
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Highlights
Success, Convict hulk
$380
The Convict Ship 'Success'
Albumen photograph cabinet card. C1890. 105mm by 165mm (card). Cabinet card size albumen photograph of the convict ship 'Success'. 'Wishing you a Merry Xmas' printed on right side of the card. 'Convict hulk 'Success'' inscribed in pencil on the reverse.
'Success' was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840 at Natmoo, Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was converted into a floating museum displaying relics of the convict era.
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The fire at Anthony Horden's, Sydney, 1901
$180
Silver gelatin stereoview photograph. 1901. 86mm by 177mm (card). On 10th July 1901 a disastrous fire razed the Anthony Horden building, costing the lives of 5 employees at the time, and another death during demolition.
A couple of light foxing spots.
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A Fleet of Transports under Convoy
$4800
After Richard Dighton
A Fleet of Transports under Convoy
Mezzotint. 1781. 340mm by 249mm (sheet). Printed and sold by Carrington Bowles, London, c1781. Rare mezzotint engraving depicting convicts on their way from Newgate Prison to the docks for transportation. CONDITION : Trimmed to the image and below the title. Publication line missing. A couple of small faint creases. A couple of small areas of very faint browning. Some marks on the reverse of the sheet. Professionally conserved.
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Sir Ralph Darling, mezzotint engraving
$3800
Mezzotint by John Richardson Jackson (1819-1877) after John Linnell (1792-1882)
C1845. 310mm by 235mm (image) 420mm by 330mm (sheet). India-laid proof. After an oil dated 1825.
A couple of very minor marks in margins.
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