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James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864–1946)

Ploughing on the Campagnetta, 1894

Photogravure; 5 x 14.8 cm (image); 14.3 x 24.1 cm (paper)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.670

 

In 1896 J. Craig Annan published a luxurious portfolio of prints, Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures, that collected views from his travels to Italy. Six of the works by Annan in the Art Institute’s Stieglitz Collection, among them Ploughing on the Campagnetta, were included. In these works Annan expertly combined photographic detail with the smears and smudges of the ink used in the photogravure printing process.

 

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