Four hand-coloured lithographs of Sydney circa 1826 by Augustus Earle (1793-1838) sold in Oxford for £26,000.
These lithographs with a pre-sale estimate of £200-300, saw five phone bidders from Down Under compete in buying the works, knocked down in the end for £26,000.
The itinerant artist familiar to us in New Zealand painted scenes of our life between 1827 and 1828.
