A View of Michigan Avenue from Randolph Street in the Year 1865
published March 1926
Medium
Aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 39.8 × 54.8 cm (15 11/16 × 21 5/8 in.); Plate: 46 × 59.2 cm (18 1/8 × 23 5/16 in.); Sheet: 55.5 × 70.7 cm (21 7/8 × 27 7/8 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35729
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Raoul Varin · 1865–1943
**Raoul Varin (1865–1943) was a French engraver renowned for his meticulously detailed aquatint prints that reconstructed historical views of American cities, particularly Chicago and New York.** He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists and earned an honorable mention there in 1892. Varin specialized in signed, limited-edition aquatints, often enhanced with hand-coloring and etching, which he ...