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Rochester Row, Westminster

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1924)
Number: 383
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.269; M.265; W.219
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

While the plate began as pure etching, with just one small patch of fine drypoint shading above the walking women on the first state known, Whistler added small amounts of shading in both drypoint and etching during the course of the plate's development. He noted the burr on one impression, writing '1st. state - slight burr -' on the verso (Graphic with a link to impression #K2690202).

PRINTING

It is fairly rare. On 18 July 1889 Whistler had three impressions in stock. 8

8: List, GUW #13235.

It was mostly printed in dark brown ink, on various laid papers: one on 'antique' (pre-1800) cream laid paper with a water- or countermark, possibly 'LR' (Graphic with a link to impression #K2690z02); another with an illegible watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K2690102); and one on cream paper with a foolscap watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K2690202). One impression is in black ink on ivory laid paper with a water- or countermark, possibly 'I H Co' (Graphic with a link to impression #K2690203).