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The Etcher's Press - The Printmaker's Shop, 1642. Etching on ivory wove paper.
Etching on ivory wove paper · Plate: 25.7 × 32.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Etcher's Press - The Printmaker's Shop
- Artist
- Abraham Bosse French, 1602-1676
- Date
- 1642
- Medium
- Etching on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 25.7 × 32.2 cm (10 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 35.7 cm (11 3/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Purchase Account
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1602–1676
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




