Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Herodiade in the mirror

Date made

1919

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 194

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 756

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, aquatint and burnishing, printed in warm black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

plate [a] no imprint plate [b] printed , D'un miroir qui reflete en son calme dormant / Herodiade au clair regard de diamant... / MALLARME'.

Matrix size

27.6 x 21.4 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

proposed edition of 40, not completed

Production notes

1st state printed image only 2nd state, a second plate giving two lines of the poem by Mallarme is printed centrally just below the plate-mark

Subject categories

Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938 | Collection: The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings, acquired 1982.

Subject description

The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92177

Creators

LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist