The plant auction, Hunter Street
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
The plant auction, Hunter Street
Other titles
The old plant auction
Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 96
Work number
Queale bequest (1982), 499
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
16.2 x 20.2 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thin wove paper
Support size
19.8 x 27.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
3rd state of 3?; published state
Impression
undesignated proof
Edition information
State proofs, final state edition of 50, plus additional proofs
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, 'Plant Auction'
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed with Queale Bequest reference number verso lower right in black pencil, 499
Subject description
Men bidding for plants at auction at back of commercial premises with clock tower in background, Hunter Street, Sydney.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
92556
Accession number
83.701
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