Steps of the Sailor's Return, The Rocks, Sydney

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Steps of the Sailor's Return, The Rocks, Sydney | Date: 1912 | Technique: etching and drypoint, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate | Copyright: Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
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Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Steps of the Sailor's Return, The Rocks, Sydney

Date made

1912

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 69

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 395

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

No imprint.

Matrix size

20.8 x 15.7 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state edition of 50, plus additional artist's proofs

Subject categories

Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938 | Collection: The Alan Queale collection of Lionel Lindsay etchings and wood-engravings, acquired 1982.

Subject description

Street scene of boys pulling cart of wood, man and woman talking at stone steps, near the Sailor's Return hotel, The Rocks, Sydney.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

92586

Creators

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

Impressions

Artist: LINDSAY, Lionel | Title: Steps of the Sailor's Return, The Rocks, Sydney | Date: 1912 | Technique: etching and drypoint, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate | Copyright: Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.716

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

artist's proof

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