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Catalogue of Works

Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840 – 1940

National Gallery of Art

11 documented works

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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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Talbot, William Henry Fox

Fern

1852

photogravure

image: 20.4 × 12.9 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 25.8 × 16.9 cm (10 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

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Emerson, Peter Henry

Marsh Leaves

published 1895

16 photogravures on wove paper

open: 19.05 × 29.21 × 2.54 cm (7 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 1 in.) closed: 19.05 × 14.61 × 4.45 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.) page size: 28.4 × 18.4 cm (11 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.) image: 7.62 × 12.7 cm (3 × 5 in.) sheet: 17.15 × 26.67 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

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