Palaces, Benares

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Palaces, Benares

Date made

1930

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 482

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 221

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in brown ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower lower left within image, LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

25.2 x 30.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

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

Riverfront palaces and ghat on the Ganges River, Benares (Varanasi), India.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93235

Creators

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

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.978

State

Published state

Impression

?/100

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 76.1208

State

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Impression

?/100

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