"One moonlight night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly, Prickly Hedgehog and Slow and Solid Tortoise under the branch of a fallen tree"

Artist: b'Nimmo, Lorna.' | Title: b'One moonlight night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly, Prickly Hedgehog and Slow and Solid Tortoise under the branch of a fallen tree' | Date: 1939 | Technique: b'linocut, printed in five colour from three blocks,'
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Primary Artist

Lorna Nimmo (1920–1990)

Title

"One moonlight night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly, Prickly Hedgehog and Slow and Solid Tortoise under the branch of a fallen tree"

Date made

1939

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, East Sydney Technical College View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in five colour from three blocks,

Matrix size

16.4 x 17.4 cm (printed image)

Support

cream laid Japanese paper

Support size

27.0 x 27.6 cm (sheet)

Edition information

edition of 10

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

No inscriptions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

1282

Accession number

94.976

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1993/94 (1994-06-29)

Provenance

Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Gift of Christine Jensen, Sydney, June 1994.

Credit line

Gift of Christine Jensen 1994

Country of context

Australia

Notes

Never published or previously exhibited. Edition 10. Printed with 3 blocks, the first block printed twice.

Creators

Nimmo, Lorna. | (1920–1990) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013