Burning land
1973

Christopher CROFT

Medium: etching and aquatint
Measurements: 15.8 × 14.2 cm (image) 16.7 × 15.4 cm irreg. (plate) 28.6 × 25.4 cm irreg. (sheet)
Edition: ed. 53/60
Inscription: inscribed in pencil l.l.: 53/60
inscribed in pencil l.c.: 'Burning land'
inscribed in pencil l.r.: C. Croft
Accession Number: 1995.372
Departments: Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Kenneth Hood, 1995
© Christopher Croft/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Sydney
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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Gallery location: Not on display
Physical description: Depicts a surreal and sparse landscape; smoke billows into the atmosphere from a grate in the ground, past a tall pole around which a rope twists in suspended animation, while a group of strange, numbered forms float in the sky