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Sketches including a head and a hat

Impression: Whistler Etchings Project
Whistler Etchings Project
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Number: 440
Date: 1888/1889
Medium: unbitten; drawn through the ground with an etching needle
Size: 64 x 45 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

TECHNIQUE

The copper plate for Sketches including a head and a hat shows the early stages of an etching -- the plate was covered with an etching ground, and the head and other details were drawn through the ground with an etching needle. The plate was not bitten, so this is an intended etching, not a completed one.

PRINTING

No impressions were taken as the plate was not fully executed.