Posada de la sangre, Toledo
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
The inn of the blood
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 398
Date made
1926
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
19.6 x 26.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Millbourn paper
Support size
27.8 x 37.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, 'MILLBOURN / MSH HAND MADE PURE RAG'.
State
published state
Impression
?/100
Edition information
final state, edition of 100
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, ' 'Posada de la Sangre'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '100'. Inscribed lower centre at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This (the Inn of the Blood) was oe of the most famous in Toledo untill Franco's / Engineers tunnelling came up and ruined it. The central door with the dark figure / comming out leads to the stables which when I saw them had not change since / Cervantes stabled his pacing mule there. Cervantes wrote one of his exemplary novels / whilst staying here / LL.'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 272
Subject description
Workers and mules in the courtyard, surrounded by wooden verandahs, of a posada (inn), Toledo, Spain.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
93312
Accession number
83.1005
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 category
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist