b'1901254Festivities at Wodonga on the Completion of the North-Eastern Railway c. 1873 wood engraving, 57 x 46cm overall, together with Views in and around Echuca c.1887 wood engraving, 45 x 58cm overall, plus one other. (3 items)$150200 1255J.C. Armytage Daylesford, Victoria c. 1873 steel engraving, 34.5 x 29cm overall, together with H. Bibby Cape Otway, Victoria c.1873 hand-coloured steel engraving, 41.5 x 38cm overall, plus two other similar. (4 items)$150250 1256S. Prout c. 1873 hand-coloured steel engraving Fairlight Gren on the Warragamba, 41.5 x 37.5cm overall, 1258 together with S. Prout c.1873 hand-coloured steel engraving View from 1251 1253 Top of Grose Head, 41.5 x 37cm overall, plus two others. (4 items)Circa 1859 colour print of EuropeanCONRAD MARTENS (1801-1878), $100200 medieval fashions by Hangard-Maug,(One of the falls on the Apsley), 42 x 48cm overall, together with c. 1800 Condamnation de Manliuscirca 1873, 1257copperplate engraving, 31.5 x 37cmwatercolour and bodycolour on board, FREDERICK WOODHOUSE,overall, plus five others including foursigned lower right, (portrait of a bull),chromolithographs of English mansions.27 x 41cm; framed 40.5 x 54cm overall.(7 items) oil on canvas,$100200PROVENANCE signed lower right The Joyce Evans estate. Fred Woodhouse, 1876,Explorer John Oxley first described45 x 60cm, 62 x 77cm overallLot 1251A the Apsley Falls, New South Wales, in$6001,000 CONWAY HART (1814-1864)September 1818, writing in his journal (attributed),that he was lost in astonishment at the sight of this wonderful natural sublimity1258portrait of a gentleman, c1860,and that it is impossible to form aARTIST UNKNOWN,purported to be George Milner Stephen,correct idea of the wild magnificence(tallship maritime scene),member for Collingwood in the Victorianof the scenery without the pencil of a Legislative Assembly (1859-61)Salvator. Such a painter would here findwatercolour,oil on canvas, an ample field for the exercise of his25 x 31cm, 42 x 47cm overall57.5 x 42.5cm, 77 x 62cm overall genius. By the time Conrad Martens$250350$6,0008,000 visited the falls in 1852, they were a renowned sight. Martens produced1259three different paintings of falls on 1252 the Apsley during the following twoARTIST UNKNOWN SILVESTER DIGGLES: Three c. 1870sdecades. A detailed pencil study, The(19th century),mounted images, the largest 45 xApsley at Waterloo, shows that theI.)British man of war at harbour,54cm overall, comprising Magnificentdramatic rock formations are the realII.)Schooner off Dover,Fruit Pigeon hand-coloured engraving,focus of the work. Martens interest in Jardines Harrier lithograph, andgeology was of long standing. A Southwatercolour,Channel Bill Cuckoo lithograph.American sketchbook by him exists17 x 25cm each, 22 x 31cm each overall.(3 items) containing views of mountains, valleysPROVENANCE$300400and coastal profiles taken in 1834 whileThe Berry Collection, Youngs Auctions, he was on board the survey ship theMelbourne, 2009 (2)Beagle, and it is recorded that he had$500800 borrowed Charles Lyells Principles of Geology from Charles Darwin before the voyage began. A related work of1260identical size, being the same view fromARTHUR VICTOR GREGORY a slightly different angle (titled The Tia(1867-1957) (attributed),Falls, Northern New South Wales), was sold by Sothebys (Sydney) in August(steam ship in Port Phillip Bay),2011 for $60,000 (including buyerswatercolour on card,premium). Another version, titled as43 x 58cm, 61 x 76cm overallabove, is in the NGV collection. $500800 $6,00010,000 '