Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney

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

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 269

Date made

1922

Place made

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

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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

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Gossip, Essex Street, Sydney | Date: 1922 | Technique: etching, printed in brown ink, with plate-tone, from one plate | Copyright: 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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