Old Gloucester Street
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 361
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 747
Date made
1925
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
15.8 x 18.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
22.6 x 24.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
18/40
Edition information
final state, edition of 40
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below image in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below image in black pencil, 'In Gloucester St'. Inscribed with edition details lower right below image in black pencil, 'No. 18 ed / 40'. Inscribed lower right corner of sheet in black pencil '4.4.0. [4 guineas]'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 747 Inscribed, lower left edge [framing note] '31/2 top and sides 4' bottom'.
Subject description
Street scene of back of old house in Gloucester Street, The Rocks, Sydney with city buildings in distance.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92145
Accession number
83.536
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