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Title

Argyle Cut, old Sydney

(circa 1930)

Artist

Leonard Beck

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  • Details

    Other Title
    Argyle Cut Sydney
    Date
    (circa 1930)
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    etching, drypoint, printed in black ink with plate tone on ivory laid paper
    Edition
    26/100
    Dimensions
    18.8 x 22.8 cm platemark; 25.0 x 28.5 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed l.r., pencil "Leonard Beck". Not dated.

    Credit
    Accessioned 2007
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    216.2007
    Artist information
    Leonard Beck

    Works in the collection

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  • About

    Leonard Beck was a commercial artist and printmaker active between the 1920s and 1950s. He made about twenty-five etchings and drypoints, usually with large editions of 100 impressions. This etching of the Argyle Cut is in the tradition of etchings of ‘old Sydney’, a popular subject with etchers from the
    1880s through to the 1930s.

    from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 1 publication