Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Christmas

Date made

1935

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 518

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 156

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left, LIONEL LINDSAY'. Printed text on sign centre left, 'J [reversed] RYAN / S[reversed]HAMROCK / HOTEL'.

Matrix size

15.2 x 25.2 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

edition of 100; plus proofs

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 man carrying swag arriving at Shamrock Hotel, a bush hotel owned by J Ryan. In front of the hotel are horses and dogs.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92374

Creators

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