Collection
Fred Williams
(Australia, England 1927–1982)
- Title
- Saplings, Mittagong, from the album Volume 3
- Year
- 1958
1959-1961 - Media categories
- Print, Book
- Materials used
- flat bite over lithographic crayon, aquatint, engraving, drypoint, black ink on Kent paper
- Edition
- State ii of 4, Proof C
- Dimensions
-
29.8 x 20.1cm platemark; 32.2 x 22.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Gwen Frolich 2004
- Accession number
- 359.2005.7
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Fred Williams was a major painter and draughtsman of the Australian landscape, and the most significant and influential Australian printmaker of the latter half of last century. His work has been the subject of a number of important exhibitions and publications in the past few years; most recently, his prints were shown in a solo exhibition at the British Museum in 2003.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
- Bibliography (2)
-
James Mollison, Fred Williams etchings, Woollahra, 1968.
Anne Ryan, Look May 2006, 'Fred Williams: First showing of his etchings given by Gwen Frolich', pg. 15, Newtown, May 2006, 15 (colour illus., State iii of 4 edition 31/35 ).
