The bridge, Avoca

Primary Artist

Sydney Long (1871–1955)

Title

The bridge, Avoca

Reference

Mendelssohn (1979), 67; Paul (1928), 77

Date made

1926

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

line-etching and drypoint printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one zinc plate

Matrix size

25.0 x 32.0 cm (plate-mark)

Support

thick smooth off-white wove paper

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state?

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

edition unkown?

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

No inscriptions.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed lower centre to lower right of sheet in black pencil, 'CAT. No. 77'.

Subject description

Wooden footbridge at Avoca Lake, northern Sydney, N.S.W.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

46135

Accession number

86.1285

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 8, 1985/86 (1986-04-15)

Provenance

Collection of the artist and cataloguer of Sydney Long's etchings, Dorothy Ellsmore Paul. Gift of her nephew T S Paul to the NGA, 1986.

Credit line

Gift of T.S. Paul in memory of Dorothy Ellsmore Paul 1986

Copyright

Reproduced with the kind permission of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

Subject category

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

Country of context

Australia

Creators

LONG, Sydney | (1871–1955) Australian | Male | artist