Chelsea Children, Chelsea Embankment
Theodore Roussel
1889
- Medium
- Etching in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.1 × 13.1 cm (6 3/8 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 19 × 13.1 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 19.8 × 13.1 cm (7 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Here Roussel portrayed a privileged group of children in hats and pinafores, tended by a nanny. The location is Chelsea Embankment, across from a residential stretch of Cheyne Walk and not far from Albert Bridge, seen faintly in the background at left.
