The Bassra guard

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

The Bassra guard

Other titles

The Bazra Guard

Date made

1929

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 459

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 225

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

drypoint, printed in brown ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower right within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

19.2 x 30.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, 1 proof; 2nd state, edition of 100, plus proofsedition of 100

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

Guards with rifles on horses and camel outside Bassra, British-mandated Iraq.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90885

Creators

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

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.438

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

?/100

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 76.1211

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

?/100

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Collection

Art Gallery of New South Wales

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

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