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Lot 88

W. E. RILEY (1807–1836)
Portraits of a Prize Ram and Ewe 1828
lithograph
inscribed below image: Exhibited at Paramatta Oct. 1828 before the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, from the Electoral Saxon flocks of Raby.
22 x 29.5cm (image)

Estimate $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $1,500


Private collection, Melbourne


Australian and Australian-Related Art: 1830s-1970s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 25 November – 11 December 1987, cat. no. 2 (illus., in exhibition catalogue) (another example)


Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney; and the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Prints & Multiples

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8726
6:00pm - 10 April 2024
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Fri 5 - Sun 7 Apr, 10am - 4pm
1A Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC

CONTACT
Hannah Ryan
hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au


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