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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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