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

wove paper

Support size

25.0 x 31.0 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

watermark, [Head] ' & Co'.

State

published state

Impression

5/100

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, Toledo'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'No 5'

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed lower right at base of sheet in black pencil, ' A 48888 Etching'. Inscribed verso upper left in black pencil, '44, 16951'.

Subject description

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

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

40931

Accession number

77.714.12

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 15, 1977/78 (1977-11-08)

Provenance

Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from John Brackenreg, Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, 1977.

Credit line

Purchased 1977

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