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

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Category

Print

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013