Old fruit markets, Queen Street, Melbourne

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Old fruit markets, Queen Street, Melbourne | Date: 1917 | Technique: etching, printed in black ink, from one plate | Copyright: Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
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Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Old fruit markets, Queen Street, Melbourne

Other titles

Melbourne markets

Western fruit markets

Date made

1917

Place made

Warrane / Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

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Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 141

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 293]

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'.

Matrix size

25.2 x 19.4 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, edition of 50

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

Workers and horse-drawn carts at the Queen Victoria markets, Queen Street, Melbourne.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92653

Creators

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

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Old fruit markets, Queen Street, Melbourne | Date: 1917 | Technique: etching, printed in black ink, from one plate | Copyright: Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.743

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

trial proof

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