Title

Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura

Date made

1970 – 1970-1971

Place made

Pacific, New Zealand, North Island, Auckland View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print types

relief | planographic or intaglio

Technique

wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates

Support

thin smooth cream wove paper

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

11/60

Edition information

edition of 60; 5 artist's proofs

Production notes

this print uses an intaglio technique, allegedly invented by Palmer, where a bamboo shoot is split, flattened, engraved, then printed with a simple press. See Peter Cape, Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand (Auckland: Collins, 1974)

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed and dated lower right beneath image in black pencil, 'SA Palmer. 1970-71. Inscribed lower left beneath image in black pencil, 'Creek, Punga and Cloud - Karamatura. 11/60'.

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

No inscription

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

No inscription

Subject description

Landscape of a creek, silver tree fern and sky at Karamatura Reserve, at Huia, a settlement on the coast 45km south-west from Auckland, New Zealand

IRN

217298

Accession number

2012.702

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 3, 2011/2012 (2012-02-14)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Kees Hos, Victoria, 2012.

Credit line

Purchased 2012

Subject category

Landscape: water

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013