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Primary Artist
Elizabeth Rooney (1929–2016)
Title
Date made
1978 – (1978)
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
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