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Leon
ca. 192019th-20th century
7 1/4 in. x 11 in. (18.42 cm x 27.94 cm)
Francis Dodd, Welsh, (1874–1949)
Object Type:
Prints
Medium and Support:
Etching on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Gerard R. Pomerat on behalf of Dr. Charles M. Pomerat
Accession Number:
1997.113
Francis Dodd pursueed his interest in art at the Galsgow School of Art and in 1904, moved to London, where he worked as a painter, printmaker, and served as Trustee of the Tate Gallery (1928-35). Over the active years of his career (1907-1938), Dodd produced over two hundred etchings and drypoints, mostly of architectural subjects or portraits. Leon depicts the side exterior of a French Romanesque and Gothic hybrid cathedral. In this print, which recalls the aesthetic attitudes of John Taylor Arms, the architecture looms large, dwarfing the people and diminishing landscape to a few insignificant strokes.
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etching (printing process)*,
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- 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."
- Welsh - Refers to the culture of the modern principality of Wales, or in general to the cultures that have occupied the wide peninisula on the western part of the island of Great Britain. The term formerly referred specifically to the native British population of England in contrast to the Anglo-Saxons.
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