Castle Coca, Spain
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Castle Cocas [sic], Spain
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 408
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 240
Date made
1927
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
12.7 x 22.7 cm (plate-mark)
Support
Japanese style paper
Support size
19.4 x 27.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
Published state
Impression
?/75
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, 'Castle Cocas'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '75'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This is really the Castle de la Mota / near Medina del Campo LL / Cesare Borgia and Pizarro / died here.'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 240
Subject description
Mule-drawn wagon approaching the De la Mota Castle (Castillo de la Mota) in Medina del Campo, Castile, Spain.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
93207
Accession number
83.966
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