Invitation card: Mr and Mrs Edmund Davis request the pleasure.

Primary Artist

Charles Conder (1868–1909)

Title

Invitation card: Mr and Mrs Edmund Davis request the pleasure.

Date made

1904

Reference

Dodgson (1913), 35

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

transfer-lithograph, printed in warm black ink, from one stone

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right corner, 'CONDER'. Printed upper left to right within image, ' 13 Lansdowne Road / Nr + Mrs EDMUND DAVIS / REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF / COMPANY TO DINNER ON / SATURDAY DEC, 10th AT / 8 o'clock / DISGUISE IMPERATIVE'.

Matrix size

16.2 x 23.0 cm (printed image)

Subject category

Australia, Printed ephemera: Invitation

Subject description

A gentleman on the right, in a white pierrotÂ’s dress, holds in his right hand the strings that regulate the antics of a crowd of puppets on the floor. The lady standing near him has just taken off her mask; a harlequin stands behind them, at whose feet is the signature CONDER. There is an ornamental border to the design. [Dodgson (1913)]

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

78699

Creators

Conder, Charles. | (1868–1909) Australian | English | Male | artist

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 84.1342

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