Sydney Long
(Australia, England 20 Aug 1871–23 Jan 1955)
- Title
- Street scene Alexandria
- Year
- circa 1937
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, blue ink with plate tone on buff wove paper
- Edition
- 4/30
- Dimensions
-
35.4cm x 27.8cm platemark; 46.5 x 35.4cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Sydney Long ARE". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Miss B Kelly 1958
- Accession number
- 9896
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Another edition of 30 was printed in brown ink; one of these (5/30) is also in the collection, a gift of Miss B Kelly, who presented the Gallery with the majority of the collection's 111 Sydney Long etchings.
© Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
- Bibliography (5)
-
Anne Gray (Australia, b.1947) (Curator), Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, Canberra, 2012, 65, 192 (colour illus.). cat.no. 103; dated c1937
Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2007, 53 (colour illus.). cat.no. 75
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 46, 47 (colour illus.). cat.no. 34
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (Australia) (Author), The etchings of Sydney Long: the Richard King Collection, Goulburn, 1990, (illus.). cat.no. 26; titled 'Street scene in Alexandria'; dated 1929/30; edition 1/30
Joanna Mendelssohn (Australia, b.1949) (Author), The life and work of Sydney Long, Sydney, 1979, 216 (illus.), 265. cat.no. 127; titled 'Street scene Alexandria'; dated after 1928; AGNSW editions listed only
- Exhibition history (2)
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Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.
Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, National Gallery of Australia, 17 Aug 2012–11 Nov 2012.
