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Reading a Book

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.343)
Number: 112
Date: 1873/1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 127 x 77 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.111; M.110; W.97
Impressions taken from this plate  (18)
The form of the butterfly signature indicates a date of 1873/1874. Mansfield thought Reading a book was 'Done about 1873.' 1

Other prints of this date include Resting [111], Draped Model [109], The Letter (Maud, seated) [116], The Desk [129].

1: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 110).