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No title (softening the blows of the world with lace, crochet, woven wool, upholstery)

 

The Visitor, 1881, soft ground etching, aquatint, etching and drypoint.

  Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, American. Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

The Visitor, 1881, soft ground etching, aquatint, etching and drypoint.

  Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, American. Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

To multiply the textiles in our lives, to see threaded, coherent patterns around us, to feel padded softness; and colours, light filtering through lace, is a weapon against the harshness of the world.

 

 

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