The Bassra guard
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
The Bazra Guard
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 459
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 225
Date made
1929
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink, from one plate
Matrix size
19.2 x 30.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese paper
Support size
30.6 x 43.2 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
?/100
Edition information
1st state, 1 proof; 2nd state, edition of 100, plus proofsedition of 100
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay' Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'The Bazra Guard'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '100'. Inscribed lower left below signature in black pencil, 'to my friend Alan Queale / who also likes the Arab'. Inscribed lower right in black pencil, The Bazra is the Camel with its [?] / I drew this at Bousaada when a French Crimea Company / had assembled these desert arabs - / a real occasion for getting character'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed lower right corner of sheet in black pencil, 'The Bazac Guard Algeria'. Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 225
Subject description
Guards with rifles on horses and camel outside Bassra, British-mandated Iraq.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90885
Accession number
83.438
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