Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Returning home

Other titles

Travelling shearer

Date made

1919

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 205

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 486?

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

24.1 x 16.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

final state, edition of 30

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

Rural scene of shearer walking up hill framed by gum trees in the late afternoon.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92191

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013