Christmas card: Put your sack down mate and I'll show you how to roll a swag

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Christmas card: Put your sack down mate and I'll show you how to roll a swag

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 604

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 566

Date made

1958

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 black ink, from one plate

Matrix size

11.3 x 7.2 cm (plate-mark)

Support

cream wove paper

Support size

14.6 x 11.0 cm (sheet (folded in half))

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

edition unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Inscribed lower left to right below plate-mark in pen and ink, 'With all good wishes from / Lionel Lindsay'.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 566

Subject description

Koala (possibly Blinky Bill) with swag and billy can greeting Santa Claus with sack on a bush track.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

90770

Accession number

83.383

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