N.W. Corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Showing the Post Office Building in the Year 1865
published August 1927 (1865 depicted)
Medium
Aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 39.1 × 54.2 cm (15 7/16 × 21 3/8 in.); Plate: 45.3 × 48.7 cm (17 7/8 × 19 3/16 in.); Sheet: 53.9 × 70.9 cm (21 1/4 × 27 15/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61403
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 ...