Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926
Dawn
INV-2110
Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-19261912–13
etchingaquatint
Date
1912–13
Medium
Color etching, aquatint, soft ground, and drypoint on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, trimmed within platemark: 67 × 31.3 cm (26 7/16 × 12 3/8 in.); Sheet: 70.6 × 35 cm (27 13/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
In this work, the artist merged classical imagery of the personification of Dawn and a group of bathing nymphs with a dense veil of foliage and fog. The largest and in many ways most ambitious of Roussel’s prints, Dawn was created from 13 copper and zinc plates; the plate dedicated to the figure at the top was taken through ten states. This finished impression retains narrow margins showing the registration lines used to guide the multiplate printing process.
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