The bamboo blind.
Primary Artist
Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)
Title
Reference
Coppel (1995), ES4
Date made
1924 – c.1926
Place made
Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map
Category
Print type
relief
Technique
linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks
Matrix size
15.4 x 15.0 cm (printed image)
Support
thin white oriental paper
Support size
20.4 x 21.4 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
4/50
Edition information
edition of 50
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower right below printed image in black pencil, 'E.L. Spowers'. Not dated. Titled lower left below printed image in black pencil, 'The Bamboo Blind' Inscribed lower left below image, '4/50'.
Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production
no inscriptions
Subject description
Nursery scene of a child playing indoors looking through a bamboo blind at two other children playing with a ball outside.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
116018
Accession number
76.12
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Interim Council, Meeting 18 (1976-03-09)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 1976.
Credit line
Purchased 1976
Subject category
Australia, Art style: Japanese influence 1890s-1950s
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist