O Man! Take Heed

Created 1922. Etching, engraving, stipple and roulette, 324 x 291 mm (upper plate); 49 x 123 mm (lower plate), signed and dated lower right, edition 12 of 55 copies, framed in black timber with gold trim.

A lyrical large format etching by Norman Lindsay inspired by the music of Swiss-born Sydney composer Adolph G. Beutler, with some bars of his composition added as a separate etching plate below the image.

Reference :

BLOOMFIELD, Lin. The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Odana Editions, 1998, p. 140; 142; 415; 241 (illustrated).

Bloomfield 229