Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Christmas card: Put your sack down mate and I'll show you how to roll a swag

Date made

1958

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 604

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 566

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY / 58'. Printed lower left to right within image, 'Put your sack down mate / and I'll show you how to / roll a swag'.

Matrix size

11.3 x 7.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

edition unknown

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

Koala (possibly Blinky Bill) with swag and billy can greeting Santa Claus with sack on a bush track.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90770

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013