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Print, Test Plate (Cooper Union Student Exercise in the Effects of Acid on Metal Plate)

This is a Print. It was student at Cooper Union Art School. It is dated ca. 1960 and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is etching and aquatint on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 15 × 22.5 cm (5 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

In plate, upper margin: "HARD GROUND (BALL) NITRIC ACID 1 p. -9 WATER --TEST PLATE-- AQUATINE TONE 1-0"

Cite this object as

Print, Test Plate (Cooper Union Student Exercise in the Effects of Acid on Metal Plate); Student at Cooper Union Art School; etching and aquatint on wove paper; Platemark: 15 × 22.5 cm (5 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.); 1962-174-8

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