Caravanserai, Kairouan, Tunisia

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Caravanserai, Kairouan, Tunisia

Date made

1929

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 460

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 226

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

16.5 x 27.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

State proofs (1 of each); final state edition of 100, plus proofs.

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

A caravanserai, a roadside inn with travellers eating and relaxing, Kairouan, Tunisia.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90920

Creators

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

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.455

State

4th state of 4; published state

Impression

undesignated impression/100

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