Rural Recreation
Medium
etching and aquatint
Dimensions
sheet: 58.5 × 43.5 cm · platemark: 37.7 × 29.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
1927.334
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
To create printed reproductions of his wash drawings, Le Prince refined the method of aquatint, which uses particles of resin and acid to etch areas of granular tone into the printing plate. The finished effect imitates the subtle gradations of light and shadow achieved in wash drawings like Landscape with Watermill.