Bacchante and goat
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 23
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 353
Date made
1908 – 1908-09
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, aquatint and softground etching, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
17.3 x 12.4 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
24.0 x 16.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, 'FMO'.
State
2nd state of 2; not published
Impression
proof
Edition information
1st state, 1 proof; 2nd state not editioned a few proofs only
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Bacchante & Goat'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 353
Subject description
Nude woman, in the form of a bacchante, and goat in landscape.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
93044
Accession number
83.91
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