UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Stéphane Mallarmé

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49927)
Number: 462
Date: 1891/1892
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 229 x 175 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

TECHNIQUE

It is a drypoint, tentatively drawn with broken lines and a little diagonal shading. Whistler seems to have rubbed down the copper plate, and did not complete the portrait.

PRINTING

Only two proofs appear to have been printed (Graphic with a link to impression #E220101, Graphic with a link to impression #E220201). One impression is in dark brown ink on light grey medium-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #E220101), the other in black ink on ivory, Pro Patria watermarked, laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #E220201). Neither are trimmed or signed. It is not absolutely certain that the plate was printed by Whistler.