The Never Never, a composition
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
The Never Never, a composition
Other titles
On the plains
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 328
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 59
Date made
1924
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
spirit-aquatint, printed in green/black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
16.6 x 24.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid Whatman paper
Support size
22.8 x 28.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
proof
Edition information
final state, edition of 75 [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 Never-Never'. Inscribed lower right below image in black pencil, 'No 41'. Inscribed lower right below at base of sheet, 'Proof on wove [sic] Whatman 1824'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 59
Subject description
Landscape of brolgas drinking by a waterhole in the evening light.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90987
Accession number
83.482
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