Sydney Long

1871 - 1955

William of Wyndham 1934

Drypoint etching on cream paper
12.2 x 15.3 cm
Signed, titled and numbered 2/60

Exhibited: Painters-Etchers and Graphic Art Society of Australia, December, 1934, no. 34;
Royal Art Society, 1936, cat. no. 170, 2.5 gns.

Literature: The Life and Work of Sydney Long, Joanna Mendelssohn, Copperfield Publishing Co., Sydney, 1979, page 223, Illustrated; Sydney Long The Spirit of the Land, Anne Gray,
National Gallery of Australia, 2012, page 190, Illustrated

"The artist's wife, Catherine, wrote to Aldoph Albers after Long had died: 'I have only one etching 'The Goat', dry point, the best thing he ever did.'"

Item #7344

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