Primary Artist

Jessie Traill (1881–1967)

Title

From overseas

Date made

1913

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching and aquatint, printed in sepia ink, with plate-tone and wiped highlights, from one plate

Matrix size

30.2 x 48.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

edition of 20

Subject category

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

Subject description

View of docks, possibly Melbourne. Numerous workers talking in groups with masts and rigging of ships are silhouetted against the sky.

Legacy id

166665

Creators

TRAILL, Jessie | (1881–1967) Australian | Female | artist