| J. Craig Annan Venice from Lido [Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures] 1894 (ca) Photogravure 19.6 x 15 cm (image) 12 x 18 cm (paper) 21 x 29.1 cm (hinged paper) Art Institute of Chicago Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.664 LL/68039 Curatorial description (accessed: 27 July 2016)
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 A Venetian Requiem, 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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