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The Wine Glass

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.21)
Number: 38
Date: 1859
Medium: etching
Size: 83 x 55 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 40
Catalogues: K.27; M.27; T.28; W.31
Impressions taken from this plate  (40)

STATE

Two states are known.

State 1

Impression: K0270102
Signed 'Whistler' at lower left.
The composition is complete.
The background is shaded with horizontal lines.

State 2

Impression: K0270204
Close vertical and diagonal lines cross the plate from the top to the tray.
Some impressions are more fully inked and therefore darker, but have no additional work, as in the impression below.
Impression: K0270205