The deserted shrine.
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 10
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 422
Date made
1907
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and aquatint, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
20.1 x 15.3 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream laid paper
Support size
25.2 x 22.2 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, 'VAN GELDER'.
State
published state
Impression
proof c
Edition information
State proofs; final state edition of 30, plus proofs
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. No date. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark, 'c'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with framing notes lower left of sheet in black pencil, '1/2 RD BCK white fr'. Inscribed with framing notes lower right of sheet in black pencil, 'wed Midday'. Inscribed with Deutscher stock number verso upper left in black pencil, '11279'.
Subject description
Carved stone memorial in an overgrown garden.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
70573
Accession number
80.901
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 7, 1979/80 (1980-05-13)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, May 1980.
Credit line
Purchased 1980
Copyright
Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
Subject categories
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938 | Collection: The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings, acquired 1982.
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist