The smoker.
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Source
A ballad of buccaneering.
Page or Plate number
no.3.
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 6
Date made
1896
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
12.2 x 8.8 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Support size
17.8 x 13.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
no published
Impression
undesignated proof
Edition information
no edition. proofs only; second printing, proofs by Victor Cobb
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
No inscriptions.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Deutscher stock number verso lower right corner, '675B'. Inscribed with frame size verso upper right in black pencil, '111/2 x 8 [illeg]
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
70579
Accession number
80.903
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 7, 1979/80 (1980-05-13)
Provenance
Purchased at auction from the house sale of one of the Syme sisters (Penthouse aparartment corner Toorak and Kooyong Roads, Toorak, Melbourne in 1970s. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1980.
Credit line
Purchased 1980
Copyright
Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
Subject category
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013