"French Riviera Villages" 1938 THOMPSON, Virginia

"French Riviera Villages" 1938 THOMPSON, VirginiaTHOMPSON, Virginia [text by]Mitchell Kennerley Publisher193812" x 9 1 4"Endpapers by Pamela Bianco of La France Riviera La Cote D'AzurAquatints by Augusta Rathbone12 aquatint plates, 56 plates from photographs VG Scroll Down for (12) Additional Scans: While in Paris in 1927, Augusta Rathbone was introduced to printmaking and thereafter worked primarily in color aquatint combined with line etching. Rathbone, who had studied briefly with Bonnard, uses a

THOMPSON, Virginia [text by]

Mitchell Kennerley Publisher

1938

12" x 9 1/4"

Endpapers by Pamela Bianco of La France Riviera La Cote D'Azur

Aquatints by Augusta Rathbone

12 aquatint plates, 56 plates from photographs

VG

Scroll Down for (12) Additional Scans:

While in Paris in 1927, Augusta Rathbone was introduced to printmaking and thereafter worked primarily in color aquatint combined with line etching. Rathbone, who had studied briefly with Bonnard, uses a freely drawn black etched line to capture rough shapes which are then filled with color, using aquatint. She worked with Monsieur Porcabeuf, a professional printer in Paris, who would prove her prepared plates. In the 1930s she traveled the French Riviera and her color palette adapted to the colorful villages throughout the region.

Rathbone produced twenty color aquatints of the French Riviera and about 1938 she joined forces with Juliet and Virginia Thompson to create the illustrated book French Riviera Villages, which was published that year by Mitchell Kennerly. Twelve of Rathbone's original color aquatints were reproduced mechanically by photography and then hand colored with pochoir. Juliet Thompson photographed the villages and Virginia Thompson wrote a history on each village. Rathbone's aquatints are a modernist homage to these ancient villages.