The bamboo blind.

Artist: Spowers, Ethel. | Title: The bamboo blind. | Date: c.1926 | Technique: linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks
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Primary Artist

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)

Title

The bamboo blind.

Reference

Coppel (1995), ES4

Date made

1924 – c.1926

Place made

Naam / Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks

Text printed from matrix

Printed upper right, ES [in monoram]'.

Matrix size

15.4 x 15.0 cm (printed image)

Edition information

edition of 50

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Japanese influence 1890s-1950s

Subject description

Nursery scene of a child playing indoors looking through a bamboo blind at two other children playing with a ball outside.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

116018

Creators

Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Artist: Spowers, Ethel. | Title: The bamboo blind. | Date: c.1926 | Technique: linocut, printed in colour in the Japanese manner, from multiple blocks
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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 76.12

State

published state

Impression

4/50

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