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Windsor (Memorial)

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.7)
Number: 313
Date: 1887
Medium: drypoint
Size: 132 x 96 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.329; M.324; W.247
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

TECHNIQUE

It is pure drypoint, very light and delicate, with the fine lines slightly enhanced by light graduated ink tone on most impressions.

PRINTING

The drypoint is fairly rare. Impressions are in dark brown (Graphic with a link to impression #K3290z01) or black ink (Graphic with a link to impression #K3290406) on ivory laid paper; in black on ivory laid paper, possibly with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3290302); and also in brown ink on very thin buff laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3290403) and on an ivory laid paper with the watermark of a Hunting horn in a shield (Graphic with a link to impression #K3290402). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.