Outside the walls, Avila

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Outside the walls, Avila' | Date: 1926 | Technique: b'drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'Courtesy of the National Library of Australia'
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Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Outside the walls, Avila

Date made

1926

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 397

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

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Outside the walls, Avila' | Date: 1926 | Technique: b'drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'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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