Book plate: Clive Fitts

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Book plate: Clive Fitts

Reference

Littlewood (1978), 42

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 573

Date made

1945 – 1945, October

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one plate

Matrix size

10.0 x 8.5 cm (plate-mark)

Support

cream wove paper

Support size

14.0 x 11.6 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

edition unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

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

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 573

Subject description

Book plate for doctor Sir Clive Hamilton Fitts (1900-?), featuring open book, cigar, decanter and glass of wine in library room.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90702

Accession number

83.358

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