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Little Nocturne, Amsterdam

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49903)
Number: 456
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 135 x 99 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.414; M.413
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

Lightly etched lines and drypoint, with patches of shading, creating an atmospheric web of shifting shadows.

PRINTING

Mansfield thought there were only two impressions (Graphic with a link to impression #K4140104, Graphic with a link to impression #K4140105). 10 However, the artist also bequeathed an impression to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (Graphic with a link to impression #K4140102).

10: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 413).

One, possibly the first proof, is in black ink on buff paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4140105). The next, marked '2nd Proof', is in dark brown ink, lightly inked, on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4140104). The impression Whistler kept (Graphic with a link to impression #K4140102) is also a light, delicate impression in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper with a partial Strasbourg Lily watermark.