Old Basque houses, San Sebastian, Spain
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Old Basque houses, San Sebastian, Spain
Other titles
Basque houses, San Sebastian, Spain
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 421
Date made
1927
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate tone, from one plate
Matrix size
22.6 x 27.6 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
29.4 x 37.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
Published state
Impression
?/75
Edition information
final state, edition of 75
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, 'Basque houses'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '75'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This was the only characteristic old architecture / I could find in San Sebastian L.L.'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed lower right corner of sheet in black pencil, 'Basque Houses £[illegible] 620 [within rectangle]'.
Subject description
The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90817
Accession number
83.405
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
P & D Colnaghi & Co.X | (1914–) English | Organisation | publisher