Don Quixote

Primary Artist

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961)

Title

Don Quixote

Date made

1922

Reference

Mendelssohn (1987), 268

Work number

Queale bequest (1982), 208

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower left within image, LIONEL LINDSAY'.

Matrix size

17.5 x 13.6 cm (plate-mark)

Edition information

1st state, a few proofs; 2nd state, edition of 50

Production notes

1st state, figures complete no background. 2nd state, clouds added in background

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

Cervantes characters: Don Quixote in knight's armour on horseback and Sancho Panza following on mule.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

90932

Creators

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

Impressions

Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.46

State

2nd state of 2; published state

Impression

8/50

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia | 83.426

State

1st state of 2

Impression

artist's proof of 1st state

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