Original etching with a buffalo in profile, worked with a dense dark web of lines that cuts the animal's silhouette against the light ground behind. Signed in the copper "Viscount Bury" and published in London by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen, on 1 December 1861.
Original etching with a buffalo in profile, worked with a dense dark web of lines that cuts the animal's silhouette against the light ground behind. Signed in the copper "Viscount Bury" and published in London by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen, on 1 December 1861.
Printed on applied China paper, it comes from one of the portfolios of the Junior Etching Club, the London society that championed original etching against reproductive engraving.
Medium: Etching on applied China paper (chine collé)
Artist / after: Viscount Bury
Publisher: Day & Son, London
Source: Junior Etching Club
Date: 1 December 1861
Dimensions: Sheet 10.3 x 8.3 in (26.2 x 21.2 cm)
Condition: The impression in good condition and well inked; the support sheet with foxing spread through the margins