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Impression: New York Public Library
New York Public Library
(MEZAP)
Number: 87
Date: 1861
Medium: drypoint
Size: 227 x 152 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: '1861.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 25
Catalogues: K.77; M.77; T.60; W.64
Impressions taken from this plate  (25)

TECHNIQUE

It was a drypoint, and the few known impressions were all printed with considerable burr.

PRINTING

The first state was printed in black ink on various papers, one on tan wove paper, possibly Asian (Graphic with a link to impression #K0770101), another very richly inked print on cream 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0770102), and a third on ivory laid paper from a book (Graphic with a link to impression #K0770103). Finally there is a fragment, the top half of the print, printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0770105).
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. Cancelled impressions were printed in black ink, some on cream laid paper watermarked with a crown with thorns (Graphic with a link to impression #K0770201), on Van Gelder watermarked laid paper (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K0770203) and Strasbourg Lily watermarked paper (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K0770217).