Greeting card: A Happy New Year

Primary Artist

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)

Title

Greeting card: A Happy New Year

Date made

1924 – c.1926

Reference

Coppel (1995), ES not listed

Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks

Text printed from matrix

Printed signature lower right within image, 'ELS [in monogram]'. Printed lower left to right below image, 'A.HAPPY.NEW.YEAR'.

Matrix size

7.9 x 10.1 cm (printed image)

Edition information

edition unknown

Subject description

Design featuring a boy in Harlequin costume playing a mandolin to a girl in dancing costume.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

86653

Creators

Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 82.1035

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

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