Old Miners, Creswick Creek, Victoria
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Old Miners, Creswick Creek, Victoria
Other titles
Fossickers
Date made
1923Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 505
Category
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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