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Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.494)
Number: 275
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.311; M.305; W.225
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 is mainly etched, with some fine, extremely light drypoint shading.

PRINTING

Few impressions have been located, although Whistler's sales records suggest that he printed as many as six. The earliest proof was printed in brown ink on cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3110102). Two are in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3110105, Graphic with a link to impression #K3110104) and the sole extant impression of the second state is a sharp impression in black (or very dark brown) ink on off-white laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3110103). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.