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Bird Shop - Seven Dials

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46898)
Number: 384
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 135 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.281; M.276
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

TECHNIQUE

Bird Shop - Seven Dials is pure etching.

PRINTING

The '1st proof' was printed in black ink on a light-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2810104). Most impressions were printed in black ink on laid paper, though one was on cream Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2810102).
After Whistler died, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) commissioned Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print from the plate, which was in quite good condition, before it was cancelled. 11 Two signed impressions by Sparks were printed in black ink, one on ivory laid paper with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K2810105; see also Graphic with a link to impression #K2810110).

11: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 344, 352.