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Greengrocer's Shop, Paris

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.132)
Number: 471
Date: 1892/1894
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.424; M.427
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

The composition is mainly etched, with some additional drypoint.

PRINTING

It is rare. One impression of Greengrocer's Shop, Paris is printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with the watermark 'CR' over a crown, is inscribed '2nd proof -' (Graphic with a link to impression #K4240102). Curiously another is also annotated '2nd proof'; it is in black ink on buff laid paper with a Pro Patria watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K4240108). However, Whistler also printed a very fine, rich impression in black ink on almost transparent Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4240103) and another on such a light-weight dark cream tissue that it was first laid down on another sheet of tissue and then on card (Graphic with a link to impression #K4240105).