 Sir Lionel Lindsay: Master PrintmakerCollectors' List 113 2005 • Special & Rare |
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77 A Ballad of Buccaneering c1896. a) Etching, titled and monogrammed in plate, poem etched on left side of plate, numbered 5 and annotated "printed by Victor Cobb" in margin below, 11.4 x 7.4cm. Slight discolouration to margins; & b) Pen and ink (manuscript), six stanzas of manuscript dated "Oct. '96.", 36.5 x 12.2cm (paper size). Centre join, minor stains to margins. Mendelssohn #5, listed as "The Pirate Captain." First line of poem reads "Now alas for buccaneering and the free and flashing days…" |
The Pair $4,400 |
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78 The Goatherd 1908. Softground and aquatint, signed and titled on plate below image, 21 x 16.9cm. Trimmed into image upper left corner. Mendelssohn #20, listed as "The Goat-herd (The Goat's Path)." |
$1450 |
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79 Diana? or Bacchante? 1910. Etching, signed in plate lower left, numbered 4, signed and annotated in margin below, 13.9 x 17.9cm. Slight foxing to margins. Mendelssohn #38, listed as "Strayed Bacchante." Annotated "This is as bad as anything I ever did. Lionel Lindsay." |
$1,650 |
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80 Admiralty House 1916. Etching, signed in plate lower right, signed, inscribed and annotated in margin below, 13.8 x 12.6cm. Slight staining to margins and image, two impression marks from previous etching plates. Mendelssohn #121, listed as "Circular Quay, Sydney, from Admiralty House (Terrace and Sundial, Admiralty House)." Inscribed "To my friend John Young." Young was the owner of Macquarie Galleries. Annotated "From [an early] state [of] Admiralty House." This is a rare working state before the addition of aquatint. |
$990 |
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81 The Chapter House of St Andrews 1916. Etching and roulette, signed and inscribed in margin below, 20.2 x 14.3cm. Few wrinkles to surface. Mendelssohn #127, listed as "Old Chapter House, St Andrew's Cathedral." Rare working proof. Inscribed "To John Young." Young was the owner of Macquarie Galleries. |
$880 |
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82 (Dawes Point, Sydney) 1918. Etching and aquatint, signed in plate lower right, signed and annotated "first state" on plate below image, inscribed in margin below, 14 x 26.6cm. Few creases and crinkles to image. Mendelssohn #160, listed as "Dawes Point, Sydney (Observatory Hill)." Inscribed "To my friend John Young. Plate was afterwards cut. I 'cleaned' it up considerably and printed a few proofs in 1932." Rare early working state before final issue. |
$1,650 |
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83 The Nude with Scarf 1918. Drypoint, monogrammed in plate lower right, signed, annotated, dated and titled in margin below, 16.8 x 11.4cm. Mendelssohn #168. Annotated "Study in drypoint from life drawn I think at Springwood in Norman's studio 1918. Title 'Nude with Scarf', not published. Lionel Lindsay." |
$1,800 |
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84 (Portrait of Norman Lindsay... ...etching at Faulconbridge), 1918. Etching, signed in plate lower left, signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 13 in margin below, 18.9 x 14cm. Mendelssohn #172, listed as "Portrait of Norman Lindsay etching at Faulconbridge." Inscribed "To Dr Herbert Schlink with the etcher's regard. Dec. 1918." Schlink was a noted collector. |
$2,500 |
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85 King Billy 1918. Etching and mezzotint, titled, annotated and dated in plate lower right, signed by Lindsay and B.E. Minns, titled and numbered 38/50 in margin below, 22.6 x 16cm. Old mount burn, minor paper lost and stains to margins. Mendelssohn #167, listed as "King Billy, after B.E. Minns." Annotated "King Billy. Laff an the world laffs with you mine tinkit." |
$1,650 |
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86 Dora Creek 1918. Spirit aquatint, titled in plate lower right, signed by Phyllis Hilder and Lionel Lindsay and numbered 72 in margin below, 16.8 x 23cm. Old mount burn. Mendelssohn #166, listed as "Hilder Memorial Print." Title continues: "Memorial etching by Lionel Lindsay from the last watercolour painted by J. J. Hilder." |
$1,650 |
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87 Dancer & Guitarist c1920. Colour woodcut, signed and titled in margin below, 17.2 x 13.4cm. Slight foxing to image. Framed. Mendelssohn, p32. One of only four colour woodcuts Lindsay produced during his career; this is the fourth copy of this image I have seen in 27 years. |
$3,900 |
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88 (The Tinsmith's Shop, King Street) 1921. Etching, signed, inscribed and annotated "first state" in margin below, 11.1 x 13.2cm. Scratches to image upper and lower right. Mendelssohn #256, listed as "The Tinsmith's Shop, King Street, Sydney (Crabb's, King Street, Sydney)." Inscribed "To my friend John Young." Young was the owner of Macquarie Galleries at that time. This is a working state - a figure is missing from the shop front. |
$990 |
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89 (Invitation to Exhibition... ..., Decoration Galleries, Melbourne), 1921. Etching and aquatint, signed in plate lower left, text in plate below image, 10 x 6cm. Mendelssohn #244, listed as "Invitation to Exhibition, Decoration Galleries, Melbourne." Text reads: "Lionel Lindsay requests the honour of your company at the private view of the exhibition of his etched work to be held at Decoration Galleries, 289 Collins Street, Melb. on Monday, July 18 1921." |
$550 |
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90 [Nasturtiums with Jug] c1924. Wood engraving, signed and numbered 100 in margin below, 7.4x 7.2cm. Repaired tear to upper left margin. Rare, unrecorded - not listed in Mendelssohn. |
$1,350 |
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