Mount for The Sea at Bognor

Description

Roussel’s Scarab, Grecian Key, and Fly Pattern Mount was printed in different ink color combinations for five of his nine color prints. There were two variants for The Sea at Bognor, with the cartouche, or “scarab”—in opaque white or rose ink; it was printed in green and gold for Last Poppies, and a white and gold variation was used for a small landscape entitled The Thames, Evening. The mount was also produced in shades of red and gold for Chelsea Palaces and in black and gold for Anemonies. The remaining color subjects were accompanied by Roussel’s Shell Pattern Mount, which was likewise printed in a variety of color combinations.

Mount for The Sea at Bognor

Theodore Roussel

1897–99

Accession Number

211068

Medium

Softground etching, aquatint, lavis and drypoint in yellow-brown metallic and light brownish red on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 25.4 × 28.3 cm (10 × 11 3/16 in.); Plate: 26.5 × 29.8 cm (10 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 29.9 × 32.8 cm (11 13/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg