NGA - The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea

image: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City of and Sea

Introduction
Biography of Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Buhot’s Experimental Techniques
Landing in England: state iii/v; state iv/v; state v/v
A Pier in England: state i/viii; state ii/viii; state vii/viii
The Passage: state i/iv; state iii/iv; state iii/iv
Glossary
Exhibition Information

image: Felix-Hilaire Buhot, La Traversée (The Passage), 1879-1885

The Passage
(state iii/iv)

Even though the main subject and the margin illustrations were executed on the same plate, Buhot printed them in two different colored inks. Buhot frequently inked his plates in this manner.

The Passage, 1879–1885
etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, soft-ground etching on heavy wove paper, state iii/iv
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen