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Each print was the result of considerable experimentation and is printed in colours ground and mixed by the artist. Each is mounted on one of two etched mounts also designed by the artist and printed in a range of colours selected especially for the image. The mounts are paired with two frame patterns again designed, etched and printed by the artist in a range of colours especially selected for the ensemble. According to Roussel, he did this arrangement to create \"a harmony of colour, each proof so presented being the result sometimes of as many as twenty four or even a greater number of printings.\"* The mounted and framed prints were exhibited for the first time at the Goupil Gallery in 1899. This is the only known surviving complete framed set. They came from 'a house in Parson's Green', which is where Roussel lived, and are likely to have been the set in his house.\r\n\r\nRoussel was born in Britanny and educated in Paris. In 1874 he moved to England. It was at Whistler's suggestion that he took up etching, developing the master's highly personal and private vision into public decorative works intended for the domestic interior. His approach to colour printing was revolutionary and fundamental to printing in colours in the twentieth century. In 1910 he became the first President of the Society of Graver Printers in Colour. This set, issued at the end of the nineteenth century, has a key place in the development of the print from the private 'portfolio' works to public pieces with a decorative role akin to painting.\n\nReference: *'Roussel's Note and Catalogue of Original Etchings printed in colours, Exhibited at Goupil's, July 1899', reproduced in Mackay, Appendix III (see references).","physicalDescription":"Red, white and blue Anemones in a blue and white patterned vase against a shadowed background, surrounded by Scarab, Grecian Key and Fly pattern mount printed in black and gold, in Stag and Flower pattern frame printed on Van Gelder in black, brown and gold. \r\n\r\nTwo proofs of the frame design are in the V&A's collection, object numbers E.1484-1991 and 1485-1991.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Theodore Roussel","id":"A16307"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper (fiber product)","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"aquatint","id":"AAT53242"},{"text":"drypoint","id":"AAT53228"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Colour etching and aquatint;\r\nMount - Drypoint, softground and lavis;\r\nFrame - Etching, softground and aquatint","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Frames","id":"THES48949"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BF2455","2012FE1053"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304315"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"designed and made","id":"x39722"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1897","earliest":"1897-01-01","latest":"1897-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"print"},{"date":{"text":"1897-1899","earliest":"1897-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":"frame"}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.1484-1991","id":"O194972"},"association":"Design"},{"object":{"text":"E.1485-1991","id":"O194973"},"association":"Design"}],"creditLine":"Purchased with Art Fund support, the Vallentin Trust and the Friends of the V&A","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"295","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"etching","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"268","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"etching","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"498","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"in frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"473","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"in frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"21","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"frame","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Theodore Roussel","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed in gold ink"},{"content":"Theodore Roussel","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed three time"},{"content":"'Anemonies' Th. 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The nine prints E.1471-1479-1991 is the only known set of these prints in their colour frames and is the set referred to on page 18 of Hausberg's catalogue raisonné.\r\nReported to have come from a house in Parsons Green where the artist had a house.\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Theodore Roussel, Anemonies (sic), colour etching and aquatint, one of a set of 9 colour prints, in 'Scarab, Grecian Key and Fly' pattern mount and 'Stag and Flower' pattern frame designed by the artist; print 1897; frame design 1897-1899.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mackay, A.E. <u>The Etchings of Theodore Roussel. A Catalogue Raisonné of Plates, States and Impressions Printed in Monochrome and Colour from Original Etchings in Aquafort and Drypoint etc. With the Artist's Notes on Printing in Colour and Formulae of Tones</u>. Unpublished, see registered papers 90/2347. 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