Monks Celebrating High Mass, 1779
Etching and aquatint in blue and brown inkexpand_more
Gift of funds from Albert W. Indeckexpand_more P.69.167
Not on Viewexpand_more
Collectors could not get enough of old master drawings. Here Maria Catharina Prestel reproduced an Italian Baroque drawing housed in a private collection in Hamburg that is now in Vienna’s Albertina museum. The drawing was executed in pen and ink with white highlights on blue paper. To recreate the effect of the white heightening, Prestel applied stopping out varnish to the plate in certain areas, preventing the acid from biting these passages. When the plate was printed, ink would not adhere to those areas, allowing the white of the paper to show through as highlights.
Details
- Title
- Monks Celebrating High Mass
- Artist Life
- 1744 - 1794
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.69.167
- Catalogue Raisonne
- LeB. Vol. III.251.28
- Curator Approved
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