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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2018

This month’s Crocodile mystery is about an engraving. What do you think are the wavy lines on this print?

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I see what appear to be stairs. So I imagine that this is an upper level or a tower. Hence the wiggly lines depict the air moving around the outside of the structure. My first two thoughts were water and dirt but that seemed too obvious.

Carmen Ortiz Henley — February 27, 2018

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Possibly an intaglio offset from a damaged lithograph stone?

Jeffrey Meade — February 27, 2018

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What is this print made on? The ‘wavy lines’ look like veining. Could this be a print on a skin of some kind?

Jane — March 1, 2018

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Could it be that the plate itself was cracked from overuse pr poor printing technique, or that the more spidery ones came from the ground failing?

Andrea Cawelti — March 1, 2018

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