Last of old Hunter Street, Sydney

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Last of old Hunter Street, Sydney

Other titles

Last of old Hunter Street, Sydney, ancienne regime

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 126

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 392

Date made

1916

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Matrix size

15.5 x 14.6 cm (plate-mark)

Support

cream wove Japanese vellum paper

Support size

22.5 x 28.8 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

48/50

Edition information

1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, edition of 50

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, 'Last of old Hunter St' Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '48 ed 50'

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 392

Subject description

Street scene of a horse-drawn cart, a horse drinking at a wooden trough and pedestrians in Hunter Street, Sydney.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

92596

Accession number

83.721

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