Custom House, plate one from the London Set
1899 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 17.7 × 26.7 cm (7 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 28.7 cm (7 7/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
D. Y. Cameron, Custom House, plate one from the London Set, 1899. Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf
How to look at a D. Y. Cameron
- Squint. Count the masses. It is rarely more than three.
- Find the lightest plane and notice how much paper is left bare around it.
- Follow one line of tracery and see how few others there are.
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