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Bookplate for Peter Lindsay

Lionel Lindsay (18741961)
Bookplate for Peter Lindsay
engraving; 5.9 x 5 cm
National Library of Australia
S6359 no. 1

Lionel Lindsay started his working life at the age of 15 at the Melbourne Observatory as a pupil-assistant. Employed there from 1889 to 1892, he left to become a freelance artist and journalist and contributed black-and-white drawings to the Sydney Bulletin and other magazines. By 1927 the basis of his reputation was established and he had become widely known for his watercolours and etchings, and particularly for his woodcuts of Australian animals and birds. This bookplate, which he created for his son Peter, is one of 148 in the Library's Pictorial Collection.


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