Primary Artist

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)

Title

The bamboo blind.

Date made

1924 – c.1926

Reference

Coppel (1995), ES4

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