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Nude Girl with Arms Raised

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1893.88)
Number: 115
Date: 1873/1878
Medium: drypoint
Size: 191 x 100 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.129; M.126
Impressions taken from this plate  (18)

TECHNIQUE

A faint, delicate, tentative, drawing in drypoint.

PRINTING

There was probably a print-run of about 20 to 24 impressions. Although it was published with the set of 'Cancelled Plates' by the Fine Art Society in 1879 it does not appear to be cancelled. It is merely rather faint. One impression appears to be in grey ink on cream laid paper, with a partial watermark like a triangle (Graphic with a link to impression #K1290104).
It is possible that the impressions were printed by Frederick Goulding (1842-1909), who owned one impression, which was printed in black ink on a fine-grained cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1290103). One is in black ink on a cream wove paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1290207). Impressions similar to others in the cancelled edition are printed in black ink on laid papers, for instance on a cream 'modern' (post-1800) paper with 'Van Gelder' watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1290202, Graphic with a link to impression #K1290209) and on ivory medium-weight paper with Strasbourg Lily watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1290203).