Buoyant Sea

Description

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.

Buoyant Sea

Theodore Roussel

1919

Accession Number

211014

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.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg