Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Brick yard, St Peters

Date made

1943 – c.1945

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 587

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 519

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

24.8 x 18.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

no edition, only a few impressions printed

Production notes

The NGA has a related pen and ink drawing, 'Old brick works at St. Peters Nov.6 1918'. The print is in reverse of the drawing with some slight variations in the depictions of some details (such as the steps).

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 worker at bottom of clay pit loading clay onto vertical conveyor with factory and kiln at the top, St Peters, Sydney.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90829

Creators

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