Benjamin Minns and Vincent Sheldon

i) BENJAMIN MINNS
(1864 – 1937)
ABORIGINAL MAN AND WOMAN
etching and aquatint print on paper
12.5 x 18.0 cm (plate)
16.0 x 21.5 cm (sheet)
edition: 25/25
signed lower right: B. E. Minns
signed and inscribed with number below image: B. E. Minns 25/25

ii) VINCENT SHELDON
(1895 – 1945) THE STUDIO OF B.E MINNS
drypoint on paper
16.0 x 17.5 cm (plate)
19.0 x 19.5 cm (sheet)
edition: 12/30
inscribed with title lower left in image: THE STUDIO / OF / B.E MINNS
signed and numbered below image:Vincent Sheldon 12/30

Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 16 April 1991, lot G69
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above 19 April 1991

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 18, 184 (illus.), 227

Condition:
These works are in excellent, stable and original condition.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

Neither work is mounted or framed.