Classic Head Etching on handmade paper by Mike Burr *ONLY 1 AVAILABLE*
#13 out of a tiny edition of 35, this hand colored etching of a beautiful horse head is hand signed and numbered by the artist. The paper it's printed on is also hand made; it's faintly embossed HAND MADE below the image.
Paper is hand torn with deckled edge finish. Overall size is 8" x 11 1/2" - image size is 5" x 7"
Mike Burr is a horse and dog artist from UK, this signed print was produced by him in the early 1990s. There's no current info available on him, his prints are available on the secondary market.
What's an etching? It's a complicated process involving scribing a metal plate and submerging it in acid. The resulting impressions are far more richly detailed than modern printing methods yield. The prints are made one at a time; the wet paper is pressed onto the metal plate using a roller press and air-dried in a special rack. Because the process is so labor-intensive, etchings are typically more expensive than prints produced by other means. There's an interesting video of the process here
