Dawn
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 295
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 698
Date made
1923
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
aquatint and burnishing, printed in brown ink with wiped highlights, from one plate
Matrix size
13.8 x 23.5 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Whatman paper
Support size
17.6 x 27.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
proof
Edition information
final state, edition of 75
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Dawn'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof on old Whatman paper 1824. Inscribed lower left below signature in black pencil, 'T Alan Queale. I found the subject / at Jindabine [sic]. The print is at South Kensington [Victoria and Albert Museum] and Sir Frank Short was pleased to like it'
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 55
Subject description
Rural scene of farmhouses in landscape with sun rising behind clouds. Sketched at Jindabyne, New Soth Wales.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92310
Accession number
83.601
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