Greeting card: Put your sack down mate and I'll show you how to roll a swag
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Greeting card: Put your sack down mate and I'll show you how to roll a swag
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 604
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 746
Date made
1958
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
10.4 x 7.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Support size
15.2 x 10.6 cm (sheet (folded in half))
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
edition unknown
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Inscribed lower left to right below plate-mark in pen and blue ink, 'With all good wishes from / Lionel Lindsay'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 746
Subject description
Koala (possibly Blinky Bill) with swag and billy can greeting Santa Claus with sack on a bush track.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92143
Accession number
83.535
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
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013