Period: 20th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Collective Title: Fifty Etchings

1. VI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching with aquatint, hardground openbite, sugarlift, drypoint and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. VIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, aquatint, openbite, lavender oil on hardground and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. XXI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint bitten evenly to black over whole plate then burnished back, hardground etching and openbite on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. XVI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. XXIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, openbite etching and sugarlift on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. XXIX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching, sugarlift, openbite and aquatint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. XXXIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Sugarlift etching in 3 stages, the first bitten in 2 stages on coarse grain aquatint, second bitten in 3 states on fine aquatint, third bitten once only, then two openbites through varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. XXXVII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching and drypoint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. XXXVI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. XXXV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Spitbite, openbite, softground, and creeping bite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. XXXVIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, sugarlift, spitbite, and openbite on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. XL

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Sugarlift and softground etching, lavender oil on hardground, openbite, and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 7 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (18.1 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. XLI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, burnishing, openbite etching and drypoint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. XLII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching, creeping aquatint bite, and polishing back on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. VII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching and aquatint with crayon resist, openbite, hardground and various stages of burnishing and polishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. IX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching using needle, roulette and lavender oil, and openbite on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. XXXIX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching, aquatint, openbite, drypoint scraping, burnishing, and polishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. XLV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching, aquatint and openbite: the plate was cut in half, the other half used for plate L on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. XLVII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stop-out varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. XLVIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, openbite, sugarlift, scraping and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. XLIX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Initial faint hardground, aquatint to 7 states and creeping aquatint bite, openbite etching, burnishing, sugarlift, softground and drypoint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. L

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching, burnishing, scraping, openbite over whole surface, openbite through litho crayon, drypoint, sugarlift, and deep, ten-hour hardground bite on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. II

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching with stop-out varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. III

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching and aquatint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. V

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and openbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. IV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, burnishing, sugarlift, openbite and softground etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. X

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching with lavender oil, roulette, and openbite on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. XI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching with needle and roulette on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. XII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching with lavender oil, needle, and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. XIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Sugarlift etching, openbite, scraping and polishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. XIV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. XV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching with hardground, openbite, burnishing and polishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. XIX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Initial faint hardground drawing, then aquatint and openbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. XVIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground etching, aquatint, openbite, and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. XXII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint bitten evenly to black, acid brushed onto open plate in several stages, then openbite etching through varnish and burnishing on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. XX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, openbite, sugarlift, and hardground etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. XVII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. XXV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching through varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. XXIV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint bitten evenly to black over white plate then burnished back and open bitten through stop-out varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. XXVI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Coarse aquatint bitten in 3 states, then 5 stages of openbite etching: the plate was then cut down from a square format on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. XXVII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, aquatint, openbite through varnish and brasso, and burnishing: the plate was then cut in half at state 7 on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. XXVIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching and aquatint: the plate was cut in half after 6 states on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. XXX

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Spitbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. XXXII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, openbite etching, hardground, and hand-shaken aquatint: the plate cut down following state 12 on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. XXXI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Spitbite etching, then openbite achieved by scraping through stopout varnish on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. XXXIV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Lavender oil on hardground and spitbite etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. XLIII

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Openbite etching, hardground, 5 sugarlifts, creeping aquatint bite, scraping, burnishing, and drypoint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. XLIV

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, openbite, creeping aquatint bite, and drypoint on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. XLVI

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Softground etching, hardground, aquatint, burnishing, and openbite: the plate was cut in half at state 7, the other half made XXVII on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. I

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Hardground and softground etching on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. Fifty Etchings

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Portfolio of 50 etchings on white 300gsm Somerset TP Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (50.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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