Arcadia Alley, Pitt Street, Sydney
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Arcadia Alley, Pitt Street, Sydney
Other titles
Arcadian Alley
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 182
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 207
Date made
1919
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Matrix size
19.6 x 11.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove Japanese vellum paper
Support size
25.8 x 15.8 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
3rd tate of 3; published state
Impression
3/50
Edition information
1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, a few proofs; 3rd state, edition of 50, plus proofs.
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lionel Lindsay'. Not dated. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Accadia Alley'. Inscribed lower right beloe image in black pencil, 'No 3 ed 50'. Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, 'old alley that led to Smith's Weekly Office'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 207
Subject description
Street scene looking through archway to Arcadia Alley off Pitt Street, Sydney. The alley led to Smith's Weekly Office'.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92716
Accession number
83.763
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