PARTNER NEWS : THE JOHNSTON COLLECTION

25 SEPTEMBER 2024 – 23 MARCH 2025

COLLECTORS, ARTISANS, SOCIALITES, MAKERS…. WOMEN Experience The Johnston Collection Inspired by Women.

Inspired by Women celebrates the many facets of women’s lives in the 1700s and 1800s, and the often invisible histories of women and women’s work. 
 
Explore over fifty rarely-exhibited textiles from the historical collections of the Embroiderers Guild, Victoria displayed alongside treasures of British…

GLORIA TAMERRE PETYARR c.1945 – 2021 (Anmatyerr)
Awelye (Women’s Dreaming) 2001
synthetic polymer on linen
120 x 136 cm
$8,500
LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART

Keep in touch with our Members throughout the year at various fairs around Australia & Internationally: Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is exhibiting this weekend at The Melbourne Fair 12-14 September, and the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney 7-10 November…

Presented by ANZAAB

24-26 October 2024
MacLaurin Hall, the University of Sydney

This unmissable event will bring together Australia’s finest antiquarian book dealers, who are eager to showcase their rare books, prints, and ephemera. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or simply curious, you’re sure to discover something extraordinary.

Don’t miss out on this unique celebration of books and all…

ALBERT HENRY FULLWOOD (1863-1930) SYDNEY, 1896 
oil on panel 
13.0 × 26.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left
A wonderful work with the typical strong paint and brushstrokes of the best impressionist works of the period. 
A similar work titled Circular Quay was exhibited in the Joseph Brown exhibition in 1973

$22,000     

PETER WALKER FINE ART 

Pooh and the Honey Pot (Titled verso on sheet)
After EH Shepard. Unknown British School (Dated 1930).
Unsigned
Pen and ink on paper. 

$500

WRIGHT GALLERY FINE ART

Right image: Turner Pocock Photography: Alexander James 

BY BILL DAVIS, THE JOHNSTON COLLECTION

The Dutch excelled in engraving glass with a diamond point, both with line engraving where the image was scratched in lines on the glass surface, and with stipple engraving where the image was developed by pitting the glass surface.

There are some examples of line engraving on 17th century English glass, but unlike Continental practice, little English glass was decorated during the early…

AUSTEN, Jane
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1911 (and 1912). Twelve volumes, octavo (210 x 150 mm), bound in original uniform blue cloth… READ ON

$2,400     

DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS

Keep in touch with our Members throughout the year at various fairs…