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Details
- Date
- 1929
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, printed in black ink with plate tone on cream laid paper
- Edition
- 6/50
- Dimensions
- 14.6 x 12.5 cm platemark; 22.0 x 21.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "FHCoventry". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 54.1996
- Copyright
- © the estate of Fred Coventry
- Artist information
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Fred Coventry
Works in the collection
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About
The Gallery has the drawing upon which this self portrait engraving is based, made in 1927 while the artist was still in Sydney; the print mimics the drawing, but in reverse.
from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Gail Ross, Art New Zealand, 'Art & Industry: Frederick Halford Coventry (1905-1997)', pg. 60-63, New Zealand, Summer 2007-2008, 61 (illus.).
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 65, 65 (colour illus.). cat.no. 96
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