Test Plate, Nitric Bath, Hand-dusted Plate, no date

  • Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962

Aquatint printed in blue ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 4 1/8 × 5 1/4 inches (10.5 × 13.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. Robert M. Katzman and Mrs. Lisa Katzman in honor of Sidney and Betty Katzman and their children, Ellen and Laura, from the collection assembled by Patricia Lewis

1999.1707

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, lower center: [illegible] bath [circled] Inscribed, lower right: Hand dusted plate Inscribed, around plate above rectangles of color, left to right: 9 min 4 min 3 min 2 min 70 sec. | 7 ½ [to left of top left rectangle] | 11 min 9 min 7 ½ min 6 min 5 min | 11 m [to left of lower left rectangle]

1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Martin Lewis, Test Plate, Nitric Bath, Hand-dusted Plate, no date, aquatint printed in blue ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Robert M. Katzman and Mrs. Lisa Katzman in honor of Sidney and Betty Katzman and their children, Ellen and Laura, from the collection assembled by Patricia Lewis, 1999.1707.