Old Essex Street, Sydney

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Old Essex Street, Sydney

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

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Category

Print

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013