Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Fording the Snowy

Date made

1940 – 1940s

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 586

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 299

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink with plate, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

20.4 x 25.4 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, 4 proofs; 2nd state, edition of 4

Production notes

1st state, line work only. 2nd state, addition of aquatint Mendelssohn (1987), 586, notes only 2 impressions of 1st state. NGA 83.347 notes 4 impressions of 1st state

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 man on horse with pack-horse crossing the Snowy River, N.S.W.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93146

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013