Portrait of Christopher Brennan
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Portrait of Christopher Brennan
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 101
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 174
Date made
1914
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, foul-biting and roulette, printed in brown ink, from one plate
Matrix size
14.4 x 11.8 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thin laid 'old French' paper
Support size
27.1 x 18.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
Final state; unpublished
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
no edition, proofs only
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Chris Brennan'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof on old French / paper'. Inscribed lower left corner of sheet, ' I made several drawings of / Chris. This, John Quinn / said was most like. / I printed the edition and / presented it to the / editors of the poems towards / publishing funds'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 174
Subject description
Half-length Portrait of writer Chistopher Brennan smoking a pipe.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90782
Accession number
83.389
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
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013