UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Fishing Quay, Ostend

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46976)
Number: 351
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 129 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.352; M.348
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

Whistler drew this quickly, with bold, scrawly, broken lines and expressive squiggles, curves and dots, suggesting light, space and movement. It is pure etching, with no drypoint.

PRINTING

Fve impressions have been located. The '1st proof' and another early impression were printed in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3520105, Graphic with a link to impression #K3520102). Other impressions were in dark brown ink, one on an ivory watermarked laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3520103) and one on buff laid paper with a partial watermark, 'PRO PATRIA AS' (Graphic with a link to impression #K3520104). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed them.