Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Blackwalled house, the Rocks area, Cumberland Street, Sydney

Other titles

Black walled house, the Rocks area, Cumberland Street, Sydney

Date made

1916

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 120

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

13.8 x 17.4 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state a few proofs only; 2nd state edition of 50, plus proofs

Production notes

1st state, without figures and cart at left. 2nd state, addition of figures and cart at left

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938

Subject description

Street scene of people outside house in Cumberland Street, The Rocks, Sydney. Circus posters on wall at right.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

39345

Creators

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