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Portrait of Whistler

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.208)
Number: 5
Date: 1857
Medium: etching
Size: 118 x 80 mm
Signed: 'J. W.' at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.7; M.9; T.-; W.1
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

TECHNIQUE

It was printed in dark brown ink with surface tone, and the portrait looks warm in colour. It is an exercise in shading, with short curving cross-hatching on the face, and vigorous, untidy zigzag cross hatching on the figure and background, softened by colour.

PRINTING

Only three impressions of the Portrait of Whistler have been located (Graphic with a link to impression #K0070101, Graphic with a link to impression #K0070102, Graphic with a link to impression #K0070103.) One was printed in dark brown ink on a coarse buff wove card (Graphic with a link to impression #K0070101) and looks warm in colour; and the other two in black, one on ivory 'antique' laid (pre-1800) paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0070102), and the third, which is a greatly trimmed down fragment, on ivory 'modern' laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0070103).