Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

A castle in Extremadura (moonlight), Spain

Other titles

A castle in Estremadura [sic] (moonlight), Spain

Date made

1946

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 581

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 243

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

mezzotint, printed in brown ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

18.2 x 24.0 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

final state, edition of 50, 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 men on horse and donkeys riding past a shrine at the base of the hill-top castle lit by moonlight. The Arab castle is outside the town of Trujillo, in the Extremadura region of Spain.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93227

Creators

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