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The Little Nurse, Grays Inn

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46913)
Number: 286
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 97 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.302; M.297
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

TECHNIQUE

The plate for The Little Nurse, Grays Inn was executed in pure etching.

PRINTING

There is one impression in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020102) but most are in dark brown ink on laid paper. One, signed and inscribed with the title by Whistler, is on ivory paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020105); another, also on ivory paper, is marked with a tiny reversed 'c' on the verso, possibly a mark of approval or selection by Whistler (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020108); another is on buff 'antique' (pre-1800) paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020111), a fourth on ivory paper with a partial Hunting Horn or Strasbourg Lily watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020105); and a fifth on cream paper with a partial D & W BLAUW watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3020104). They were trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.