Greeting card: A Happy New Year

Primary Artist

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)

Title

Greeting card: A Happy New Year

Reference

Coppel (1995), ES not listed

Date made

1924 – c.1926

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks

Matrix size

7.9 x 10.1 cm (printed image)

Support

oriental style paper mounted on cream laid paper, folded in half

Support size

8.2 x 10.5 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

edition unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

no inscriptions

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

no inscriptions

Subject description

Design featuring a boy in Harlequin costume playing a mandolin to a girl in dancing costume.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

86653

Accession number

82.1035

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 2, 1982/83 (1982-08-10)

Provenance

Gift to Frances Derham, from the artist c.1926. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Frances Derham, Melbourne, 1982.

Credit line

Gift of Frances Derham 1982.

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013