Old Essex Street, Sydney
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 491
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 19
Date made
1931
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
21.2 x 15.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Support size
27.6 x 19.9 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
26/30
Edition information
edition of 30 [40?]
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Not titled. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '26'.
Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production
Inscribed in black pencil, 'Old Essex St. Sydney' [now detached from base of support]
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 19
Subject description
Street scene of man carrying goods in baskets down cobbled Essex Street, The Rocks, Sydney.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92692
Accession number
83.76
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