Travelling sheep to Bourke

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Travelling sheep to Bourke | Date: c.1940 | Technique: drypoint, 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

Travelling sheep to Bourke

Date made

1938 – c.1940

Place made

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

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Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 608

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 75

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

15.0 x 21.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

plate unfinished, no edition

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

Rural scene of man on horse travelling flock of sheep to Bourke, N.S.W.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90990

Creators

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

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Travelling sheep to Bourke | Date: c.1940 | Technique: drypoint, 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 | 83.483

State

only state

Impression

working proof

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