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Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49940)
Number: 89
Date: 1861
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 115 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: '1861' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 17
Catalogues: K.84; M.79
Impressions taken from this plate  (17)

TECHNIQUE

An unfinished study, in both etching and drypoint.

PRINTING

It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. All known impressions are from the cancelled plate. They were almost certainly printed in 1879, probably in a print-run of about twenty. They are usually printed in black ink on ivory laid paper (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K0840202, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840205, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840211). Watermarks included Van Gelder (Graphic with a link to impression #K0840202, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840205, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840211), Strasbourg Lily (Graphic with a link to impression #K0840203, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840210, Graphic with a link to impression #K0840206) and partial Strasbourg Lily showing the horned crown (Graphic with a link to impression #K0840201).