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Seymour Haden, Jr, Seated

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46716)
Number: 9
Date: 1857/1858
Medium: etching
Size: 137 x 98 mm
Signed: 'J Whistler' at lower left (obscured by shading)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 24
Catalogues: K.29; M.6; T.16; W.22
Impressions taken from this plate  (24)

STATE

Three states are known.

State 1

Impression: K0290106
Signed 'J Whistler' (Graphic with a link to impression #K0290102, Graphic with a link to impression #K0290103) at lower left, although 'histler' is largely obscured by the shading, to the left of the boy's leg:
There are burnished areas at upper left and right, scraper marks at upper right, and a series of 'test' marks in the upper right corner.

State 2

Impression: K0290105
There is a roughly horizontal line across the boy's jacket and left sleeve.

State 3

Impression: K0290203
Horizontal lines are added in the shading at right; there are several long roughly vertical scratches near the left edge; scraper marks at upper right have been removed.