Old Education Department from the Lands Office

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Old Education Department from the Lands Office

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 532

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 398

Date made

1936

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 with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

13.4 x 22.6 cm (plate-mark)

Support

Japanese paper

Support size

18.8 x 27.4 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

1st state

Impression

1st state proof

Edition information

state proofs; final state edition of 75 (perhaps not completed); plus proofs

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '1st state'..

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 317

Subject description

Street scene of pedestrians outside Education Department buildings on Loftus Street, Sydney with Metropole Hotel, corner of Young and Bent Streets at right.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

92464

Accession number

83.659

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