Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Femmes damnées

Date made

1909

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 32

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 478

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, printed in blue/black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, 'L.L. [initials in monogram within circle]'. Printed lower left within image, 'Comme une batuel passif / sur le sable couchees Elles tourment leurs yeux verts / l'horizons des maests'.

Matrix size

8.4 x 26.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

State proofs; final state proposed edition of 25, only a few printed

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

Group of five nude women damned on an island.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92733

Creators

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