Dawn

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Dawn

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

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Category

Print

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013