[Design for cover of the Lone Hand, ca. 1907] / attributed to Norman Lindsay

SV/187

fonds

ca. 1907

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

914058

1 watercolour - 31.8 x 20.4 cm - pencil, colour

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a significant contributor to The Lone Hand, a monthly Australian magazine of literature and poetry founded in 1907 by J. F. Archibald and Frank Fox. The Lone Hand was a sister magazine to The Bulletin, another magazine for which Lindsay worked for over 50 years.

Reference:
Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. http://www.daao.org.au (accessed 25 November 2010)

Watercolour design for cover of magazine showing image of a horse and rider in front of a background of trees.

The Lone Hand banner has been drawn across the top of image and a lower margin has been attached with printers instructions on colours in Lindsay's hand. Image and lower margin have been joined together and attached to a backing card.

The design does not appear to have been used on any published copy of the Lone Hand.

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years

Titled and dated from Australia Described catalogue, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 23–25 November 2010 (Item 109)

Written in pencil in lower margin in artist's hand 'Full red back ground. faint red on whites of / figure. white lettering. Black key block . / Deep etch all whites in key block.'

Unsigned, attributed to Norman Lindsay after comparison with handwriting in Angus & Robertson Ltd - Further records (Part 2) : Correspondence, ca 1933-1974, located at MLMSS 3269/234

Fine graze of the surface of the paper above image of horseman