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
Category
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