Fleur de caprier

 

Judith Rothchild

  1950 - PRESENT (biography)

2010  

mezzotint 

7 1/16 x 5 1/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

EA I/III 

 

 

ivory wove Hahnemuhle 

published 

artist 

18431 

$400.00 

Rothchild's mezzotint captures the delicacy of the flowers of the caper bush which is also called Flinders rose. The bush is cultivated for its flower buds known as capers and its fruit known as caper berries. Both are pickled and used in Mediterranean cooking.