b'24123 127120 123 127GERARD KREFFT [1830 - 1881] MATTHIJS MARIS [DUTCH,EMMA MINNIE BOYD [1858 - 1936]The Wombat 1839 - 1917] ATTRIBUTED The Mine Shaft Central Victoria, (Phascolomys Wombat) Untitled (A woman washing 1883lithograph from Mammals of Australia,clothes by a window) watercolour, initialled EB1871, illustrated by Helene Scott andoil on board, circa 1880 and dated 25.7.83 lower left.Harriett Morgan 35 x 26cm 22 x 18cm33 x 39cm $2,0003,000 $600800$300400 124 128121 JEAN-LOUIS FORAIN [1852 - 1931] PHIL MAY [1864 - 1903]GERARD KREFFT [1830 - 1881] LAmbulante, from CroquisRailway SpeightThe Platypus Parisiens, 1880 pen and ink on paper(Ornithorynchus Anatinus) etching titled at the base and signed at right;lithograph from Mammals of Australia,15 x 9.5cm dated (November 24, 1888), and titled 1871, illustrated by Helene Scott and$200300on reverse together with The Bulletin Harriett Morgan copyright handstamp.29 x 41cm 35 x 18cm$300400125 Richard Speight (18381901) was an WILLIAM TAYLOR SMITH TIBBITSEnglish-born Commissioner of Railways 122 [1837 - 1906] of Victoria, serving between 1883 and St. Ives, Toorak Road South Yarra 1892. Amidst allegations of corruption and L. APPLETON (ENGRAVER) mismanagement and within the setting of The Interior of the Main Hallwatercolour depressed economic conditions, Speight (Melbourne Exhibition 1880) 8 x 14cm and the other commissioners resigned Now a Rob Mills & Paul Bangayin 1892 following the enactment of the a double page engraving from Thedevelopment Railways Act, 1892 that relieved the Illustrated Australian News of Oct.9, 1880 $200300commissioners of railway construction 36 x 48cm responsibilities and reduced much of $100150126 their power. Almost immediately, he sued David Syme, then editor of The Age, for H. BARRETT 25,000, alleging libel. Speight lost nine Eucalyptus pauciflora of the ten cases, and was awarded one Chromolithograph (from The Forest Florafarthing in damages for the case won.of South Australia), 1882-1890 $20040047 x 35cm$100125 '