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Price's Candle Factory

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1891.14)
Number: 166
Date: 1876/1877
Medium: drypoint
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (6-8); replaced with new butterfly (9-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 13
Known impressions: 19
Catalogues: K.154; M.151; W.124
Impressions taken from this plate  (19)
Price's Candle Factory dates from 1876 or 1877. The first sales of this drypoint occurred in October 1877. 1

Further printing of the copper plate occurred in 1879. 2

Prints of similar date include From Billingsgate [165], Pickle Herring Wharf [164], and Lindsey Houses [161].

1: Whistler to C. A. Howell, 16 October 1877, GUW #12735.

2: List, written by M. Franklin, 14 August 1879, GUW #13019.