The wood load

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

The wood load

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 212

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 378

Date made

1919

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

warm etching and aquatint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

10.7 x 13.0 cm (plate-mark)

Support

thick cream wove paper

Support size

15.9 x 18.1 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

final state, edition of 50, but only a few printed

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribedlower left at base of sheet in black pencil, 'The wood load'. Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 378

Subject description

Rural scene of man loading wood onto horse-drawn cart.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90895

Accession number

83.442

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