Buoyant Sea
Theodore Roussel
1919
- Medium
- Soft ground etching in black on cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 5.3 × 17.7 cm (2 1/8 × 7 in.); Sheet: 10.9 × 21.3 cm (4 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
For this experimental print, Roussel tried etching on tin, rather than a traditional copper plate. The lightly etched, grayish effect is likely due to the soft, thin metal matrix.
