King Billy
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 167
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 457
Date made
1918
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, roulette and burnishing, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
22.6 x 16.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Support size
28.2 x 20.3 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, edition of 50, plus proofs
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 457
Subject description
Portrait of Aboriginal man, "King Billy", wearing top hat and engraved breast-plate.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
93029
Accession number
83.905
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. | Aboriginal Australians: Portrait, male
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist
Minns, B.E. | (1864–1937) Australian | Male | print after