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Flower Market, Brussels

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46635)
Number: 339
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 179 x 67 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.359; M.358
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

This plate was begun in pure etching, and just one small area of drypoint shading was added in the second state.

PRINTING

There was a small print-run of Flower Market, Brussels. The first proof, mostly in etching, was printed in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3590102), as were subsequent impressions (Graphic with a link to impression #K3590103, Graphic with a link to impression #K3590104). They are all trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with Whistler's butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them.