The barber of Bousaada
(1929)
- Medium
- etching, plate-tone and soft-ground
- Measurements
- 17.6 × 27.6 cm (plate) 29.5 × 44.5 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Mendelssohn 1987, 458
- Printing/Publishing
- published by Colnaghi
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lionel Lindsay / The Barber of Boussada
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 100 / The Barber of Bousaada
inscribed in plate (in image) l.l.: LIONEL LINDSAY - Accession Number
- 1034-4
- Departments
- Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1940
© 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
- Not on display
- About this work
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Lionel Lindsay visited Europe several times in the 1920s and travelled widely around the continent. Like Tom Roberts and numerous Australian artists before him, he was fascinated by the Muslim architecture and culture that shaped the cities and towns of Southern Spain over 700 years of Moorish settlement. This sparked his interest in the cultures of Northern Africa, and in 1929 Lindsay embarked on a three-month trip to Algeria and Tunesia, where he sketched and made etchings of everyday life in marketplaces, towns and the surrounding landscape.
