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N.W. Corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Showing the Post Office Building in the Year 1865

A work made of aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper.
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  • A work made of aquatint and etching in brown, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper.

Date:

published August 1927 (1865 depicted)

Artist:

Raoul Varin
French, 1865-1943

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Raoul Varin

Title

N.W. Corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Showing the Post Office Building in the Year 1865

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

Date

Published 1927

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ernest Byfield

Reference Number

1928.699

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