The deserted house, Creswick
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
The Ferns
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 296
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 198
Date made
1923
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
aquatint and etching, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
16.8 x 13.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
24.5 x 18.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, '[illegible] & Co'.
State
published state
Impression
21/50
Edition information
final state, edition of 50
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, 'The Deserted House'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '21/50'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This is in the 'Ferns' of which I / made the wood cut for the Discobolus'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 198
Subject description
Light patterns over wall in a room of a deserted house, Creswick, near Ballarat, Victoria.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92307
Accession number
83.6
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