Desolation
(1919)
Medium
aquatint and etching
Measurements
18.8 × 13.1 cm (plate) 27.8 × 19.7 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1940
© The Estate of Lionel Lindsay/National Library of Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Mendelssohn 1987, 188
Edition
ed. 3/50
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lionel Lindsay (Lindsay underlined)
inscribed in pencil l.r.: No 3 ed / 50
inscribed in plate l.l.: Desolation. (underlined) / The somnolent light of the moon and the shadowy stairs / Bestrewn with the leaves of camellias.. the desolate porch; / The star like bloom on the lake, and the lilac sweet aires... / The flame and the scent... of an epithalalamium torch / Hugh Mc Crae
inscribed in pencil l.c.r.: last proof £4.4
Accession Number
991-4
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
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