Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Hegarty's Baths, St Kilda.

Other titles

Hegarty'a old baths, St. Kilda, condemned.

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 105

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 506

Date made

1914

Place made

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

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching and foul biting, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

12.0 x 18.4 cm (plate-mark)

Support

laid Van Gelder paper

Support size

18.8 x 27.7 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

watermark: 'VAN [gelder]'

State

4th state of 4; published state

Impression

proof

Edition information

1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, proofs only; 3rd state, proofs only; final state, edition of 50, plus proofs

Production notes

Early state had softground etching in sky, later burnished.

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay' Not dated Inscribed lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Hegarty's baths / St Kilda' 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, 506

Subject description

View of condemned old sea baths in Port Phillip Bay at St. Kilda Beach, Melbourne.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

92524

Accession number

83.685

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