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A Moonlight Attack
192020th century
8 3/4 in. x 15 1/4 in. (22.23 cm x 38.74 cm)
James McBey, British, (1883–1959)
Object Type:
Prints
Medium and Support:
etching and drypoint printed with surface tone on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Gerard R. Pomerat on behalf of Dr. Charles M. Pomerat
Accession Number:
1997.115
McBey’s earliest etchings have been categorized by art historians as "unsentimental yet romantic." His later works show a more linear, agressive approach. McBey ominated the generation of etchers left behind by Whistler and Haden and his prints are considered to have been the most expensive and valuable prints of the 1920s.
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20th Century,
21st Century,
Contemporary*,
drypoint (printing process)*,
drypoints (prints)*,
etching (printing process)*,
etchings (prints)*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*,
Scottish*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- drypoint (printing process) - Intaglio process in which a sharp needle scratches the plate creating a burr that yields a characteristically soft and velvety line in the final print.
- drypoints (prints) - Prints made using the drypoint process.
- etching (printing process) - Intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate; the plate is then exposed to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed, to create lines and dark areas. For the single step of exposing the plate to acid, use "biting."
- etchings (prints) - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
- Scottish - Refers to the culture of the modern country of Scotland, or in general to cultures that have occupied the northern part of the island of Great Britain.
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