The sailor's boarding house
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Miller's Point [2]
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 369
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 79
Date made
1925
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, drypoint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
12.0 x 15.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
18.0 x 20.8 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
11/75
Edition information
final state, edition of 50 [75]
Production notes
Mendelssohn (1987), 369, notes final state edition of 50, but notes some inscribed as edition of 75
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, 'The sailor's Boarding House'. Inscribed with edition details, lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No. 11 ed / 75'. Inscribed lower right corner in black pencil, '£2.2 [2guineas]'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 79
Subject description
Street scene of sailors meeting outside sailor's boarding house, Miller's Point, Sydney.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92508
Accession number
83.677
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