(Telephone)

Primary Artist

Elizabeth Rooney (1929–2016)

Title

(Telephone)

Date made

1978 – (1978)

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Matrix size

35.0 x 22.4 cm (printed image (trimmed))

Support

cream wove paper

Support size

35.0 x 22.4 cm (sheet)

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed reversed lower right corner, pen and green ink '...Rooney'. Not dated. Inscribed verso, pen and green ink '4/23/Feb 23'79/...'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

1133

Accession number

94.947

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1993/94 (1994-06-29)

Provenance

Gift to Joyce Allen, from the artist. The Allen family by descent, 1992. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from the family of Joyce Allen, 1994.

Credit line

Gift of the family of Joyce Allen 1994

Country of context

Australia

Notes

Dear Joyce/ How lovely to see your handwriting/ in letter when on my return from fixing/ up my teaching times at North Syd Catholic/ Teachers College (Tues & Wed till mid May)./ I've been thinking of you often too - Hoping/ you were not being too badly effected by/ the fire & smoke & Heat ...

Creators

Rooney, Elizabeth. | (1929–2016) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013