Sturt's desert pea, 1925
Margaret Preston
hand-coloured woodcut
18.5 x 24.5 cm (image)
26.5 x 29.0 cm (sheet)
signed with initials in image lower left: MP.
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Sturt’s desert pea / 3rd proof / Margaret Preston
James R. Lawson, Sydney, c.1960s
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 20 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 66 (another example)
Woman's World, Sydney, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1926, p. 64 (illus., another example, as 'N.S.W. Wild Flowers')
The Home, Sydney, vol. 8, no. 8, August 1927, p. 26 (illus., another example)
Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 22 (Margaret Preston Number), December 1927, p. 76, pl. 41 (illus., another example, as 'Australian Wild Flowers')
Art in Australia, Sydney, no. 57, 15 November 1934, p. 90 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 88, p. 109 (illus., another example)