Primary Artist

Harry Weston (1874–)

Title

The short cut to the colourful East, Qantas Empire Airways

Date made

1936 – c.1938

Place made

Australia, Australia, Tasmania, Hobart View on map Close map

Category

Poster

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones [or plates]

Matrix size

97.5 x 62.2 cm (printed image)

Support

cream wove lithographic paper

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

no inscriptions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

75212

Accession number

87.168

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 4, 1987/88 (1987-10-01)

Provenance

With the lithographic artist until his death in 1971. By descent to Eleanor Burdett, the artist's widow. Gift to the Australian National Gallery, from Eleanor Burdett, Canberra, October 1987.

Credit line

Gift of Eleanor Burdett 1987

Subject category

Collection: The Frank Burdett archive of his Australian commercial lithography, acquired 1987.

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Weston, Harry. | (1874–) Australian | Male | artist

Burdett, Frank. | (1897–1971) Australian | Male | printer