Evensong

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Evensong

Date made

1917

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 140

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 439

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching and drypoint, printed in black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'. This text is obscured by aquatint in published state.

Matrix size

18.8 x 14.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

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

Production notes

1st state, etching and drypoint only 2nd state, addition of aquatint

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

Mythological scene of Pan sitting on a rock playing pipes to a naked woman holding a crook and a herd of goats.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92412

Creators

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

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.636

State

1st state of 2?

Impression

undesignated impression

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.352

State

1st state of 2

Impression

undesignated impression

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.637

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

10/50

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