Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Tramping for tucker

Other titles

On the wallaby

Date made

1917

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 147a

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 386

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

aquatint, etching, burnishing, printed in brown ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

12.6 x 21.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; final state, at least 6 proofs

Production notes

1st state, line etching. 2nd state, addition of aquatint.

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 itinerant men walking along a track in the evening, carring swags and billies, in search of food.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92288

Creators

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