Returning home
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Travelling shearer
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 205
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 486?
Date made
1919
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
24.1 x 16.6 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
29.4 x 21.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
13/30
Edition information
final state, edition of 30
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, 'Returning Home'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 13 ed / 30'. Inscribed lower right corner of sheet in black pencil, '3.3.0 [3 guineas]'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 486?
Subject description
Rural scene of shearer walking up hill framed by gum trees in the late afternoon.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92191
Accession number
83.558
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