Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Charity

Other titles

The Cathedral door

Date made

1921

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 243

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 670

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

19.6 x 13.8 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs only; 2nd state, edition of 50

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

Urban scene of poor family receiving alms from nuns at cathedral door, Spain. Man on horseback in foreground.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90825

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013