Book plate: W.S. Robinson

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Book plate: W.S. Robinson

Date made

1936

Reference

Littlewood (1978), 78

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 572

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

no imprint. Printed text lower centre below image, EX LIBRIS / W.S. ROBINSON'.

Matrix size

12.6 x 8.9 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

edition unknown

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

Book plate for William Sydney Robinson (1876-1963), Managing Director of Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty Ltd, featuring gum tree (eucalyptus) and banksia.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90694

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.355

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

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