Washington Street between State and Dearborn, Chicago, Showing Crosby's Opera House in the Year 1864
published September 1927 (1864 depicted)
Medium
Aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 39 × 54.7 cm (15 3/8 × 21 9/16 in.); Plate: 45.1 × 48.8 cm (17 13/16 × 19 1/4 in.); Sheet: 54 × 70.8 cm (21 5/16 × 27 7/8 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61166
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 ...