Miners at the Hill (Descent on a Bucket)

Details

Artist

Roy Dalgarno

Title

Miners at the Hill (Descent on a Bucket)

Year

1984

Medium

acquatint and soft ground etching (suite of 10), edns. 4/40

Size

various

Stock Number

290084

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Exhibited

In The Black, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2009

Further Information

Suite of 10 soft-ground etchings with aquatint, each editioned 4/40, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, titled, signed and dated in ink on label attached to folio, 33 x 49.4cm (each).
Each etching has a descriptive title covering various aspects of mining: (1) Descent on a bucket; (2) Going up in the cage; (3) Drilling at the mine face; (4) Knock off time; (5) Shoring up in a shaft; (6) Working in a large shaft; (7) Probing the mine face; (8) Miners working a shaft; (9) Filling in a worked out level; (10) Three miners.