Jessie Traill
(Australia 29 Jul 1881–15 May 1967)
Sydney Bridge IV: The ants' progress, November 1929
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The Gallery has the complete set of Jessie Traill's celebrated series of etchings depicting the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, completed in the years 1927 to 1931. Traill's interest in this complex engineering feat was shared by a number of artists, including her close contemporary Grace Cossington Smith, attesting to the central place the construction of the bridge had in the life of the city.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Place of origin
-
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
- Year
- 1929
- Media
- Medium
- etching with foul biting, printed in brown ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 39.8 x 25.2cm platemark; 49.0 x 33.6cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "JCA Traill 1929".
- Credit
- Purchased 1975
- Accession number
- 201.1975
- Copyright
- © Jessie Traill Estate
