Portrait of Christopher Brennan
Artist/Maker and role
Lionel Lindsay (b.1874, d.1961): Artist
Production date
1914
About this object
Christopher John Brennan (1870 – 1932) was an Australian poet and scholar and a friend of Lionel Lindsay.
Lindsay made a number of etchings of Christopher Brennan.
"Two of these etchings made in 1914 show him seated in thought. The other two are a development from the first, the intimate portrait has been formalised into a medallion piece, an isoloated head, suitable to record the distinguished poet in the frontispiece of a book."
"Both these prints were later reworked into bookplates for Harry Chaplin."
Mendelssohn,J. The Art of Lionel Lindsay, Etchings, 1987, p.26-27
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Signed in pencil, l.l beneath plate.
Titled in pencil, bot.c.
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