The goat's dance
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 20
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 475
Date made
1910
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
aquatint and burnishing, printed in black ink with plate-tone with wiped highlights, from one plate; with additions in brush and ink
Matrix size
17.0 x 21.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
25.7 x 21.2 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, image of man with club
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, 4 proofs
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left partially within plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'The Goat herd'. Inscribed lower right within plate-mark in black pencil, aquatint'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 476
Subject description
Mythological scene of satyrs playing music and dancing with a goat.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92749
Accession number
83.775
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