Title
Street scene Alexandria
circa 1937
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1937
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, blue ink with plate tone on buff wove paper
- Edition
- 4/30
- Dimensions
- 35.4 cm x 27.8 cm platemark; 46.5 x 35.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Sydney Long ARE". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Miss B Kelly 1958
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9896
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia
- Artist information
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Sydney Long
Works in the collection
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About
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
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 17 Aug 2012–11 Nov 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 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
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Anne Gray, Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, 'The spirit of the land', pg. 45-70, Canberra, 2012, 65, 192 (colour illus.). cat.no. 103; dated c1937
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 46, 47 (colour illus.). cat.no. 34
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Joanna Mendelssohn, 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
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 53 (colour illus.). cat.no. 75
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