Old houses, Cumberland Street, Sydney.
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Old houses, Cumberland Street, Sydney.
Other titles
Old houses, Gloucester Street.
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 74
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 409
Date made
1912
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and aquatint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
12.0 x 16.4 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
23.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermak, ' & Co'.
State
Not published
Impression
15/50
Edition information
proposed edition of 50, not issued
Production notes
(Art in Australia, 3:13, September 1925, lists work as not being issued).
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre at base of sheet in black pencil, 'Old houses Cumberland St'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof 15/50'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed lower left at base of sheet in black pencil, 'UNPUBLISHED'. Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 409
Subject description
Street scene of fish monger (?) outside houses in Cumberland Street, The Rocks, Sydney.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92572
Accession number
83.709
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