The guitar player
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Other titles
Serenade
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 220
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 187
Date made
1920
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in black ink, from one plate
Matrix size
17.6 x 10.8 cm (plate-mark)
Support
laid H.C.I. Portal paper
Support size
26.8 x 17.8 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
watermark, indecifable sheild
State
published state
Impression
proof on H.C.I. Portal paper
Edition information
final state, edition of 50, plus proofs
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. no date. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'The Guitar Player'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'proof on H.I.C. Portal / paper'. Inscribed lower right corner of sheet in black pencil, 'out of Print £5.5'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 311
Subject description
Man in Spanish costume singing and playing guitar in the street.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
90862
Accession number
83.427
Accession method
Bequest
Meeting
Meeting 10, 1982/83 (1983-05-09)
Provenance
Alan Queale, Brisbane. Bequeathed to the National Gallery of Australia by Alan Queale, Brisbane, 1982. Alan Queale Bequest accepted by the National Gallery of Australia, 1983.
Credit line
Bequest of Alan Queale, 1982.
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