Magnolia Nigra I

Magnolia Nigra I, a copper sulphate etching by Cliona Doyle, shows a single elongated magnolia bud in deep magenta-crimson, its surface stippled with fine dark speckling, rising above sage-green leaves with scalloped, mottled edges on a slender olive-brown stem. The composition is spare and vertical, the solitary stem set against a plain pale blush-cream ground with no other elements. The work is undated.