Christopher Brown #3,016Established

Drypoint and softground etching

Oil on canvas

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 15 – turquoise and brown soft ground, black aquatint with light orange-brown spit bite back ground) [working proof 15]

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 14 – red and brown soft ground, yellow ochre spit bite background, three figures scraped out, one more added) [working proof 14]

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 13 – red and brown soft grounds with yellow ochre spit bite background) [working proof 13]

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 12 – black soft ground) [working proof 12]

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 24 – close to edition with 2nd bird added) [working proof 24]

color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 10 – blue and black soft ground, yellow aquatint, only one bird in image) [working proof 10]

pencil and black crayon on tracing paper [preparatory drawing]

graphite and colored pencils on tracing paper [preparatory drawing]

red colored pencil and graphite on tracing paper [preparatory drawing]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 11 – close to edition with black and yellow ochre pastel) [working proof 11]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 10 – color proof, darker red, with blue-grey background, triangular shape cut out of image) [working proof 10]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 9 – color proof, red and blue shadows added) [working proof 9]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 8 – color proof, grey background aquatint heavily burnished, blue aquatint, yellow ground added to background) [working proof 8]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 7 – red soft ground with blue pencil) [working proof 7]

softground and aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 6 – black soft ground with aquatint back ground) [working proof 6]

set of three drawings: pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper [preparatory drawing]

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 24 – color proof, close to the edition)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 23 – color proof with black and orange pastel)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 15 – color proof with pencil drawing)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 14 – color proof with blue and rust pastel and pencil drawing)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 10 – blue soft ground, black spit bite, horizontal bands in aquatint added)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 2 – black soft ground and spit bite)

color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 1 – black soft ground of figures)