Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Girl's High School, Castlereagh Street, Sydney

Other titles

Fort St Girls High School, Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets

Date made

1919

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 192

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 215

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

18.6 x 29.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, proofs only; 3rd 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

Street scene of girls leaving the Girl's High School in Castlereagh Street, Sydney with horse-drawn tram advertising Pears Soap is in the foreground.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93122

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013