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, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one copper plate
Matrix size
13.4 x 22.6 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
7/75
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 Sydney'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '7/75.
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
46836
Accession number
61.44
Accession method
Gift
Provenance
Gift to Peter Lindsay, from his father Lionel Lindsay. Gift to the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board (C.A.A.B.), from Peter Lindsay, Sydney, August 1961.
Credit line
Gift of Peter Lindsay 1961
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