Girl's High School, Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Girl's High School, Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Other titles
Fort St Girls High School, Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 192
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 215
Date made
1919
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
18.6 x 29.6 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thick Japanese style paper
Support size
26.0 x 37.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
3rd state of 3; published state
Impression
artist's proof
Edition information
1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, proofs only; 3rd state, edition of 50
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Girls High School'. Inscribed lower right beloe image in black pencil, 'artist proof on Jap ed 60 [sic]'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This was a Macquarie Bupper lefting/ opposite to Angus + Robertson's/ pupper leftd down to bupper left David Jones/ big shop'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 215
Subject description
Street scene of girls leaving the Girl's High School in Castlereagh Street, Sydney with horse-drawn tram advertising Pears Soap is in the foreground.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
93122
Accession number
83.936
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
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013