Old Education Department from the Lands Office
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Old Education Department from the Lands Office
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 532
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 398
Date made
1936
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
13.4 x 22.6 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thick cream wove paper
Support size
18.8 x 27.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
Watermark, 'Hand Made'.
State
published state
Impression
undesignated proof
Edition information
state proofs; final state edition of 75 (perhaps not completed); plus proofs
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'old Education Dept.'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'This view of the old building is / from the Land Office. / LL'. Inscribed lower right corner of paper in black pencil, '£2.2 [erased]'..
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 398
Subject description
Street scene of pedestrians outside Education Department buildings on Loftus Street, Sydney with Metropole Hotel, corner of Young and Bent Streets at right.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92570
Accession number
83.708
Accession method
Bequest
Meeting
Meeting 10, 1982/83 (1983-05-09)
Provenance
Alan Queale, Brisbane. Bequeathed to the National Gallery of Australia by Alan Queale, Brisbane, 1982. Alan Queale Bequest accepted by the National Gallery of Australia, 1983.
Credit line
Bequest of Alan Queale, 1982.
Copyright
Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
Subject categories
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938 | Collection: The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings, acquired 1982.
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist