The Tunis Gate, Kairouan

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

The Tunis Gate, Kairouan

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 475

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 219

Date made

1929

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

24.8 x 28.9 cm (plate-mark)

Support

Japanese style paper

Support size

30.7 x 39.0 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

5th state of 5, published state

Impression

?/100

Edition information

1state, 1 proof; 2nd state, two proofs; 3rd state, 1 proof; 4th state, 1 proof; 5th state, edition of 100, plus proofs.

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay' Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'The Tunis Gate, Kairouan'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '100'. Inscribed lower right in black pencil, 'The Gateway is on the North End / of Kerouan [sic 'Kairouan']'.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 219

Subject description

Street scene of men outside a gate, Kairouan, Tunisia.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90918

Accession number

83.454

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