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The Lace Maker, 1880/82. Etching on cream laid paper.
Etching on cream laid paper · Image/plate: 33.1 × 22.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Lace Maker
- Artist
- Otto Henry Bacher American, 1856-1909
- Date
- 1880/82
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 33.1 × 22.7 cm (13 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 37 × 25.9 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1856–1909
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




