White gums
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 548
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 267
Date made
1937
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
17.6 x 25.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thin Japanese style paper
Support size
24.2 x 33.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
2nd state of 2; Published state
Impression
14/30
Edition information
State proofs; final state edition of 30 plus proofs.edition of 30
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, 'White Gums'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 14/30'. Inscribed lower centre in black pencil, 'direct drypoint. There were plenty of White Gums (when i / made this plate) in Wahroonga'. Inscribed lower right corner of sheet, '£3.3 [3 guineas]'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 267
Subject description
Two white gum trees (eucalyptus).
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90960
Accession number
83.47
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