Corner of Lake and La Salle Streets, Chicago, Marine Bank Building in the Year 1864
published January 1927
Medium
Aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 38.4 × 54.4 cm (15 1/8 × 21 7/16 in.); Plate: 44.8 × 58.6 cm (17 11/16 × 23 1/8 in.); Sheet: 55.3 × 70.6 cm (21 13/16 × 27 13/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35734
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 ...