The Bassra guard
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
The Bassra guard
Other titles
The Bazra Guard
Date made
1929Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 459
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 225
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in brown ink, from one plate
Text printed from matrix
Printed lower right within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.
Matrix size
19.2 x 30.2 cm (plate-mark)
Edition information
1st state, 1 proof; 2nd state, edition of 100, plus proofsedition of 100
Subject categories
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938 | Collection: The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings, acquired 1982.
Subject description
Guards with rifles on horses and camel outside Bassra, British-mandated Iraq.
Country of context
Australia
Legacy id
90885
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist
Last Updated
19 Mar 2013
Impressions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia | 83.438
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
?/100
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National Gallery of Australia | 76.1211
State
2nd state of 2; published state
Impression
?/100
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression
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