Greeting card: To wish you a happy Christmas and New Year, 1929
Primary Artist
Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)
Title
Greeting card: To wish you a happy Christmas and New Year, 1929
Reference
Coppel (1995), ES not listed
Date made
1929
Place made
Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map
Category
Print type
relief
Technique
linocut, printed in colour, from multiple blocks
Matrix size
4.3 x 4.2 cm (printed image (a))
Support
paper
Support size
9.2 x 16.5 cm (sheet (folded in half))
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
no inscriptions
Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production
no inscriptions
Subject description
Design featuring Santa Claus in sled pulled by two reindeer through the Southern hemisphere sky with Southern Cross constellation and pointers.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
87796
Accession number
82.178
Accession method
Curator's allowance
Meeting
Meeting 5, 1982/83 (1982-11-08)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Frances Derham, Melbourne, 1982.
Credit line
Purchased 1982
Subject category
Australia, Art style: Grosvenor school linocuts
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist