Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Portrait of Christopher Brennan.

Source

Album of original art works assembled by R H Croll

Page or Plate number

p.6.

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 101

Date made

1914

Place made

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

Category

Album

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

14.4 x 11.1 cm (plate-mark)

Support

paper

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Inscribed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay to R.H.Croll / with this etchers kind regards / Sept 1935 / Chris Brennan proof on old / vellum'.

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

none

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

none

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

15745

Accession number

96.592.9

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1995/96 (1996-06-26)

Provenance

The album was assembled by Robert Henderson Croll (1869-1947), writer, biorgrapher, art historian. (see ADB, vol.8, pp154-5). The Croll estate was sold by the book dealer Kenneth Hince (Melbourne) and Malvern Fine Art Gallery Melbourne. The album was acquired by Roger Butler from Malvern Fine Art Gallery prior to 1981. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Roger Butler, Canberra, June 1996.

Credit line

Gift of Roger Butler 1996

Copyright

Courtesy of the National Library of Australia

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938

Country of context

Australia

Creators

LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013