A Heavy Cross
- Medium
- Color etching and aquatint, with burnishing, inked à la poupée, on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 15 × 12.5 cm (5 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.8 × 14.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
aquatintprintprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Rothstein’s composition portrays a young boy collecting a pile of wood, either at work or at home. Until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, such exploitative practices were common. Even afterward, children may have done menial labor in order to support their families.
