Posada de la sangre, Toledo
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
The inn of the blood
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 398
Date made
1926
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
19.6 x 26.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
wove paper
Support size
25.0 x 31.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, [Head] ' & Co'.
State
published state
Impression
5/100
Edition information
final state, edition of 100
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, ' 'Posada de la Sangre, Toledo'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 5'
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, ' A 48888 Etching'. Inscribed verso upper left in black pencil, '44, 16951'.
Subject description
Workers and mules in the courtyard, surrounded by wooden verandahs, of a posada (inn), Toledo, Spain.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
40931
Accession number
77.714.12
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 15, 1977/78 (1977-11-08)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from John Brackenreg, Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, 1977.
Credit line
Purchased 1977
Copyright
Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
Subject category
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist