Old Pitt Street School House
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Old church, Pitt Street
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 149
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 84
Date made
1917
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and aquatint, printed in blrown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
13.8 x 11.8 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
21.4 x 19.2 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, ' & Co'.
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
14/50
Edition information
1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, planned edition of 50, not all printed
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Old Pitt St School House'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 14'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'Mr Edmund Barton + Dancer Peughy [?] / Educated therein'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 84
Subject description
Street scene outside old school house, Pitt Street, Sydney.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92490
Accession number
83.669
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