The Sea at Bognor
Theodore Roussel
1895
- Medium
- Soft ground etching, inked à la poupée, in yellowish green and greenish blue on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image, platemark only partially visible: 4.5 × 14 cm (1 13/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 10.3 × 15.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Roussel was a pioneer in color etching in Britain, and a series of trial proofs illustrates his creative process. For many of the proofs, colored ink was painted onto the plate and then apparently printed without using a press. The completed version of this soft ground etching was among a set of nine color prints first exhibited in 1899. Roussel also made a painting of the same view of sky, sea, and shore at Bognor Regis, located on the southern coast of England.
