Rock Davis's Slips, Woy Woy
Primary Artist
Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)
Title
Rock Davis's Slips, Woy Woy
Other titles
Rock Davis's boat shed, Brisbane Water, Woy Woy
Date made
1917Reference
Mendelssohn (1987), 150
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and drypoint, printed in warm black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
Text printed from matrix
Printed lower left within image, 'LIONEL LINDSAY'.
Matrix size
32.4 x 48.6 cm (plate-mark)
Edition information
1st state, proofs only; 2nd state, proofs only; 3rd state edition of 45, (5 on cream wove Japanese vellum, 15 on O.W. hand-made waterleaf paper, 25 on Dutch Van Guelder paper)
Production notes
Mendelssohn (1987), 150, notes edition of 15 on 'Old Whatman' paper. This is a misreading of the information on papers given in the Angus & Robertson advertisment for this print that appeared in Art in Australia, 1:2 1917, which records the edition of 15 on 'O.W. hand-made waterleaf paper'. Lionel Lindsay added to this confusion by inscribing NGA 81.115 as a 'proof on Whatman'. O.W. Paper & Arts Co. Ltd. was established by the English watercolour painter John William North (1842-1924) in 1895. It specalised in fine hand-made papers for watercolour painting and printmaking. Paper was watermarked 'O.W.P. & A.C.L.. This watermark is frequently misread as 'O.W.P. & A.O.L.'.
Subject category
Australia, Art style: Painter-etchers 1860s-1938
Subject description
The 'Big Shed' an A-frame wooden boatshed, built at Blackwall hear Woy Woy, Brisbane Water, N.S.W., by Rock Davis (1833-1904), shipbuilder. The last vessel was built at the shipyard in 1913.
Country of context
Australia
Legacy id
110058
Creators
LINDSAY, Lionel | (1874–1961) Australian | Male | artist
Impressions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia | 81.115
State
3rd state of 3, published state
Impression
proof
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National Gallery of Australia | 83.762
State
3rd state of 3; published state
Impression
12/30
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