Officers quarters, Kent Street

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Officers quarters, Kent Street

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 72

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 393

Date made

1912

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching and drypoint, printed in brown ink, from one plate

Matrix size

16.8 x 15.0 cm (plate-mark)

Support

cream laid paper

Support size

21.8 x 18.4 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

2nd state of 2 (with clouds), published state

Impression

undesignated proof

Edition information

1st state 4 impressions; 2nd state edition of 50, plus additional artist's proofs

Production notes

An impression annotated by the artist as 'first state' was illustrated in 'Art in Australia' 3.23 March 1928, plate no.29.

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, 'Officers Quarters'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'second state'.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 319

Subject description

Street scene of pedestrians and horse-drawn buggy outside the Officers' Quarters on Kent Street, The Rocks, Sydney.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90728

Accession number

83.367

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