Mardi Gras, Serville, Spain
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Spanish ladies
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 198
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 444
Date made
1919
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
31.8 x 20.4 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
35.8 x 24.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
proof
Edition information
1st state, few proofs; final state, edition of 25, not all printed?
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, 'Mardi Gras'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 444
Subject description
Two Spanish women, wearing mantillas, watching mardi gras from a decorated window above the street, Seville, Spain.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90799
Accession number
83.397
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