A decade of practice and experimentation as a printmaker culminated in a suite of ten color prints made in 1890–91. Combining glaze-like, layered tones of aquatint with the textured surfaces of softground etching and the pure, clear outline of drypoint, cassatt's innovative prints astonished and amazed her contemporaries. Camille pissarro, himself a printmaker as well as a painter, admired the perfection of her prints, describing the colors as "subtle, delicate, adorable blues, fresh rose, etc. " the result for him was "admirable, as beautiful as japanese work. " in the omnibus is the only scene in the series that does not have an interior setting. The theme of travel was appealing to artists in 19th-century paris—it represented a public space where people of different classes and genders were juxtaposed in close proximity. A quintessential modern life subject, cassatt depicts a bourgeois lady accompanied by her baby and a nursemaid doing errands in the city. While the nanny and the child interact, the mother's gaze is directed elsewhere, wandering to the world beyond. Date: 1890. Place of creation: America, 19th century. Dimensions: Platemark: 36.6 x 26.8 cm (14 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.). Medium: color drypoint and aquatint. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1941.71
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