Finance: "For the moment, if you please madam, less of this fecundity".
Primary Artist
Will Dyson (1880–1938)
Title
Finance: "For the moment, if you please madam, less of this fecundity".
Source
Finance
Date made
1927 – c.1929
Place made
North & Central America, United States of America, New York, New York View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
25.2 x 18.9 cm (plate-mark)
Support
paper
Support size
33.0 x 26.0 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
36
Subject description
Satirical scene of banker representing finance addressing nude woman representing productivity pouring goods from a cornucopia.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
31442
Accession number
77.455
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 12, 1977/78 (1977-08-09)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from John Brackenreg, Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, 1977.
Credit line
Purchased 1977
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Dyson, Will. | (1880–1938) Australian | Male | artist