Museum Exhibition
Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840 – 1940
National Gallery of Art
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Emerson, Peter Henry
A Winter's Morning
1887
photogravure
image: 17.7 x 28.7 cm (6 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 21.5 x 32.4 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.) mount: 40 x 50.8 cm (15 3/4 x 20 in.)
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Weil, Mathilde
Beatrice
1899
photogravure in sepia on chine collé mounted on cream wove paper
image: 16.7 x 9 cm (6 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 18.8 x 10.4 cm (7 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.) mount: 37.8 x 27.8 cm (14 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
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Nègre, Charles
Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle
c. 1854, printed c. 1857
photogravure
image: 53 × 73 cm (20 7/8 × 28 3/4 in.) sheet: 59.3 × 80 cm (23 3/8 × 31 1/2 in.)
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Cundall, Joseph
Crimean Braves — Men of the Trenches and Battlefields in the Crimea
1856
photogalvanograph
image: 24.5 × 19.8 cm (9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 55.8 × 37.9 cm (21 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
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White, Clarence H.
Edge of the Woods, Evening
1900
photogravure
image: 14.5 x 10.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 in.) sheet: 28.5 x 19.8 cm (11 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
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Lerebours, Noël Marie
Excursions Daguerriennes / Vues et Monuments les plus Remarquables du Globe (Vol. 2)
1844
bound volume with etchings, aquatints, lithographs, photogravures after daguerreotypes and text
open: 26.5 × 76 cm (10 7/16 × 29 15/16 in.) closed: 26.5 × 37 × 3.5 cm (10 7/16 × 14 9/16 × 1 3/8 in.) image: 13.97 × 19.69 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 26.04 × 35.56 cm (10 1/4 × 14 in.)
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