Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney' | Date: 1922 | Technique: b'etching, printed in brown ink, with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'Courtesy of the National Library of Australia'
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Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney

Date made

1922

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 269

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 401

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

15.0 x 20.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

final 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

Urban scene of man and woman talking in poor area of Sydney.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90821

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney' | Date: 1922 | Technique: b'etching, printed in brown ink, with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'Courtesy of the National Library of Australia'
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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.407

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

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