Old Hunter Street book and print shop.
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Old Hunter Street book and print shop.
Other titles
Old Hunter Street bookshop
The old Print shop, Hunter Street
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 36
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 24
Date made
1910
Place made
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink, from one plate
Matrix size
16.1 x 19.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
laid Whatman 1825 paper
Support size
21.8 x 26.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark: 'WHATMAN 1825'
State
Published state
Impression
proof A
Edition information
State proofs; final state edition of 30, plus proofs. Some impressions record the edition as 20 (National Library of New Zealand, A-067-004)
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'The old Print Shop Hunter St'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof A'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 24
Subject description
A group of men standing in front of a print dealers shop in Hunter Street, Sydney. This was Robert A. Forbes' Gallery, 51 Hunter street. The impression in The National Library of New Zealand (A-067-003) is inscribed by the artist, 'demolished 1909', but the gallery was still operating from this address until their lease expired in November 1911. On the left is the window of David Fealy, Solicitor, 49 Hunter Street.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92649
Accession number
83.741
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
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013