Old Miners, Creswick Creek, Victoria

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Old Miners, Creswick Creek, Victoria

Other titles

Fossickers

Date made

1923

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 505

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

20.2 x 27.8 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, edition of 50

Production notes

Mendelssohn (1987), 505, does not note 'LIONEL LINDSAY printed lower left within image.

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 one fossicker with a bundle of sticks talking to another panning at a creek bed.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90748

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.375

State

2nd state, of 2; published state

Impression

6/50

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