Museum Exhibition

Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Rowlandson, Thomas

A Bawd on Her Last Legs

1784, pubished 1785

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint on laid paper

sheet: 29.8 × 41.5 cm (11 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.) plate: 27.2 × 37.8 cm (10 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

Featured works

Rowlandson, Thomas

1784, published 1792

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with hand coloring on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 27.5 × 37.5 cm (10 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)

Delacroix, Eugène

1833

aquatint on laid paper

image: 15.9 × 96 cm (6 1/4 × 37 13/16 in.) plate: 22.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 57.5 × 37.2 cm (22 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Delacroix, Eugène

1833

aquatint and drypoint on laid paper

plate: 22.6 × 16 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 32 cm (15 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

Dürer, Albrecht

1785

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 26.1 x 25 cm (10 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 43.5 x 35.9 cm (17 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

French 18th Century

c. 1795

etching, aquatint and roulette printed in brown on laid paper

sheet: 49.2 × 24.4 cm (19 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.) (cut inside platemark and measured at widest points)

107 documented works in this exhibition