Outside the walls, Avila

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Outside the walls, Avila | Date: 1926 | 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

Outside the walls, Avila

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 397

Date made

1926

Place made

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

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Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 273

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY / AVILA'.

Matrix size

22.6 x 31.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

final state, edition of 75

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

Cattle being herded across a bare plain with granite outcrops outside the medieval stone walls of Avila, Spain.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93214

Creators

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

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Outside the walls, Avila | Date: 1926 | 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 | 83.969

State

Published state

Impression

?/75

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