Couchies – Historic Print
![Couchies, [19--] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/48/48d0260a95e1-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Couchies, a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few titles on this board are as informal as *Couchies*, a word that hints at a relaxed, everyday moment rather than a formal likeness. The print is a soft-ground etching, a technique that lets the artist press in textures such as pencil strokes or fabric, giving the surface a grainy, drawn quality unlike sharper line engraving. The record gives no date, but it notes the pencil signature and a 1970 catalog of American prints in the Library of Congress that documents the work. Soft-ground etching was popular with American printmakers around the turn of the twentieth century, so the piece likely comes from that era.
| Created / published | [19--] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : soft-ground etching ; 25.3 x 20.1 cm. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 238. Gift. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,154 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159570 |
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