Magnolia Nigra III

A magnolia branch bearing a single unopened bud rendered in deep magenta-red, its curved petals still closed, set among elongated pointed leaves in mottled dark green and black against a cream ground. The etching plate leaves visible texture throughout—speckled granular shading within the leaf and bud shapes and faint scratched lines in the pale background—with slender brown branches connecting the forms. Cliona Doyle, *Magnolia Nigra III*, copper sulphate etching.