Old Essex Street, Sydney

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Old Essex Street, Sydney' | Date: 1931 | Technique: b'drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'Courtesy of the National Library of Australia'
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Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Old Essex Street, Sydney

Date made

1931

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 491

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 19

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

21.2 x 15.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

edition of 30 [40?]

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

Street scene of man carrying goods in baskets down cobbled Essex Street, The Rocks, Sydney.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92692

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013

Impressions

Artist: b'LINDSAY, Lionel' | Title: b'Old Essex Street, Sydney' | Date: 1931 | Technique: b'drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate' | Copyright: b'Courtesy of the National Library of Australia'
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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.76

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

26/30

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