Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura
Title
Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura
Date made
1970 – 1970-1971
Place made
Pacific, New Zealand, North Island, Auckland View on map Close map
Category
Print types
relief | planographic or intaglio
Technique
wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates
Support
thin smooth cream wove paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
11/60
Edition information
edition of 60; 5 artist's proofs
Production notes
this print uses an intaglio technique, allegedly invented by Palmer, where a bamboo shoot is split, flattened, engraved, then printed with a simple press. See Peter Cape, Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand (Auckland: Collins, 1974)
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed and dated lower right beneath image in black pencil, 'SA Palmer. 1970-71. Inscribed lower left beneath image in black pencil, 'Creek, Punga and Cloud - Karamatura. 11/60'.
Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production
No inscription
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
No inscription
Subject description
Landscape of a creek, silver tree fern and sky at Karamatura Reserve, at Huia, a settlement on the coast 45km south-west from Auckland, New Zealand
IRN
217298
Accession number
2012.702
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 3, 2011/2012 (2012-02-14)
Provenance
Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Kees Hos, Victoria, 2012.
Credit line
Purchased 2012
Subject category
Landscape: water