Gums in moonlight
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Moonlight in the bush
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 51
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 343
Date made
1911
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
mezzotint and etching, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
12.2 x 14.9 cm (plate-mark)
Support
Japanese paper
Support size
15.8 x 18.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
21/40
Edition information
final state edition of 40
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated .Inscribed lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Gums in moonlight'. Inscribed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, Edition 40'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 21'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 343
Subject description
Landscape with a man standing in a gully of trees lit by moonlight.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90764
Accession number
83.38
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