Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Beggars, Spain

Date made

1923

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 291

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 647

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

22.6 x 15.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, edition of 75, but not all printed

Production notes

1st state, figures completed 2nd state, addition of background upper left and right

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

Urban scene of old man on crutches, young man and woman begging on the street.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90874

Creators

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