Greeting card: To wish you a happy Christmas and New Year, 1929

Primary Artist

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947)

Title

Greeting card: To wish you a happy Christmas and New Year, 1929

Reference

Coppel (1995), ES not listed

Date made

1929

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in colour, from multiple blocks

Matrix size

4.3 x 4.2 cm (printed image (a))

Support

paper

Support size

9.2 x 16.5 cm (sheet (folded in half))

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

no inscriptions

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

no inscriptions

Subject description

Design featuring Santa Claus in sled pulled by two reindeer through the Southern hemisphere sky with Southern Cross constellation and pointers.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

87796

Accession number

82.178

Accession method

Curator's allowance

Meeting

Meeting 5, 1982/83 (1982-11-08)

Provenance

Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Frances Derham, Melbourne, 1982.

Credit line

Purchased 1982

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Grosvenor school linocuts

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Spowers, Ethel. | (1890–1947) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013