Bookplate: M Napier Waller
Primary Artist
Christian Waller (1894–1954)
Title
Reference
Butler (1992), 44
Date made
1930 – c.1932
Place made
Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map
Category
Print type
relief
Technique
linocut, printed in black ink, from one block
Matrix size
15.0 x 7.8 cm (printed image)
Support
thin white wove paper
Support size
23.0 x 7.8 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
print-run unknown
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
No inscriptions
Subject description
Combination of motifs including a centaur playing a lyre, a Phoenician boat and a saintly figure.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
59274
Accession number
79.1835
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 1, 1979/80 (1979-08-13)
Provenance
With the artist at her death in 1956. Collection of Klytie Pate, neice of the artist. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, August 1979; From the exhibition, 'Christian waller 1895/1956', Melbourne: Deutsher Galleries, 8 September - 30 September 1978, cat. no., 166, (illustrated).
Credit line
Purchased 1979
Subject category
Australia, Printed ephemera: Bookplate (ex libris)
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Waller, Christian. | (1894–1954) Australian | Female | artist