Sketching |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.316) | |
| Number: | 83 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 120 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right (1-3); partly removed (4-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | Junior Etching Club, 1862 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 35 | |
| Catalogues: | K.86; M.87; T.86; W.69 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (35) | ||
In 1861 Whistler was asked to illustrate two poems in Passages from Modern English Poets. Whistler wrote to Arthur James Lewis (1824-1901):
'Can't find anything among my old plates that will do for your work - but will at once begin, and finish two small etchings as I promised'. 12
12: Whistler to A. J. Lewis, [November 1861?], GUW #02138.
The copper plate has not been located. The plate was exactly the same size as the other 'small etching', The Punt [82]. Kennedy mentioned that 'On this plate there is a bevel of about one eighth of an inch all around.' 13
13: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 86).