Posada de la sangre, Toledo

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Posada de la sangre, Toledo

Other titles

The inn of the blood

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 398

Date made

1926

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Matrix size

19.6 x 26.2 cm (plate-mark)

Support

cream wove Millbourn paper

Support size

27.8 x 37.4 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

watermark, 'MILLBOURN / MSH HAND MADE PURE RAG'.

State

published state

Impression

?/100

Edition information

final state, edition of 100

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, ' 'Posada de la Sangre'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, '100'. Inscribed lower centre at base of sheet in black pencil, 'This (the Inn of the Blood) was oe of the most famous in Toledo untill Franco's / Engineers tunnelling came up and ruined it. The central door with the dark figure / comming out leads to the stables which when I saw them had not change since / Cervantes stabled his pacing mule there. Cervantes wrote one of his exemplary novels / whilst staying here / LL.'.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 272

Subject description

Workers and mules in the courtyard, surrounded by wooden verandahs, of a posada (inn), Toledo, Spain.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

93312

Accession number

83.1005

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 category

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

Country of context

Australia

Creators

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013