The guitar player

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

The guitar player

Other titles

Serenade

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 220

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 187

Date made

1920

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

17.6 x 10.8 cm (plate-mark)

Support

thick cream wove paper

Support size

22.4 x 17.0 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

35/50

Edition information

final state, edition of 50, plus proofs

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 Guitar Player'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 35/50'..

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 187

Subject description

Man in Spanish costume singing and playing guitar in the street.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90926

Accession number

83.458

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