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Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.610)
Number: 449
Date: 1889
Medium: etching
Size: 132 x 221 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.415; M.412
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

A complex network of etched lines of varying length, shape and strength, combined with patches of shading, create the the building, figures and reflections.

PRINTING

Jew's Quarter, Amsterdam is very rare. Four impressions have been located. They are printed with great sensitivity, one in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4150103), another in dark brown ink on ivory Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4150102), and a cancelled impression in black on ivory wove paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4150201).