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Bohemians

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46654)
Number: 486
Date: 1901
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 86 x 53 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.442; M.440
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

Bohemians is mainly etching with light drypoint shading. There is the mark of a vise, used to hold the plate, across the upper right corner.

PRINTING

There was a limited print-run. Three impressions were printed in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4420106, Graphic with a link to impression #K4420102), possibly with a crowned 'GB' watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K4420103), followed by two in dark brown ink on cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K4420105, Graphic with a link to impression #K4420204). All were trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.
Whistler worked very lightly in pen on one impression (Graphic with a link to impression #K4420204), but did not carry out these alterations on the copper plate.