Duplicate of Top Inscription or Milky Way with The Nine Shots (supplementary suite, plate 6) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

Marcel Duchamp · 1965, published 1967

Before you is Duplicate of Top Inscription or Milky Way with The Nine Shots (supplementary suite, plate 6) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1 — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen sixty-five, published nineteen sixty-seven. Aquatint — resin dusted onto the plate and bitten in acid to make tone rather than line, the printmaker's way of getting a wash. In the picture, look for the architectural plan.

Medium Etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book · Dimensions plate: 6 3/16 x 13 11/16" (15.7 x 34.7 cm); sheet: 13 x 19 15/16" (33 x 50.6cm) · Credit Monroe Wheeler Fund

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Landscape, Speculations from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Oxygen House Project (Plan), Biotecture, Terrarium Showroom, Elevations, Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections), UCCA Dune Art Museum, Aranya, Hebei, China, Terrarium Showroom project, California (Scale model, 1/16" = 1')

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride