The Tunis Gate, Kairouan

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

The Tunis Gate, Kairouan

Date made

1929

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 475

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 219

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

24.8 x 28.9 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1state, 1 proof; 2nd state, two proofs; 3rd state, 1 proof; 4th state, 1 proof; 5th state, edition of 100, plus proofs.

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

Street scene of men outside a gate, Kairouan, Tunisia.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90918

Creators

LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.454

State

5th state of 5, published state

Impression

?/100

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