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The Ramparts, Sandwich

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.591)
Number: 324
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.309; M.304
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

It is pure etching. It was drawn with short curved, bouncy, and jagged lines, plus more sinuous lines on the figures, and a very few patches of shading. There are a lot of flecks and traces of earlier work.

PRINTING

The Ramparts, Sandwich is very rare. Two impressions are in black ink, one on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3090102) and one on an off-white, almost grey paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3090104); another is in dark brown ink on a watermarked ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3090103). All were trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp' to show that Whistler printed them.