The black cat
(1922)
- Medium
- wood engraving
- Measurements
- 18.2 × 15.3 cm (block) 21.9 × 19.4 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Mendelssohn 1987, 146
- Edition
- ed. 48/100
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lionel Lindsay
inscribed in pencil l.c.: The Black Cat
inscribed in pencil l.r.: No 48 Ed / 100
inscribed in block (in image) l.r.: LIONEL LINDSAY - Accession Number
- 3605-3
- Departments
- Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1927
© The Estate of Lionel Lindsay/National Library of Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Gallery 18
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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Lionel Lindsay was a member of the highly creative Lindsay family, all of whom were artists. Lindsay was best known for his wood engravings and in this work he achieved a particularly rich yet subtle rendering of the light and shade across the cat’s fur. He has also brilliantly captured this cat’s fiery eyes, which in black cats were supposedly a sign of the devil.
