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Railway-Station, Voves

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1924.662)
Number: 387
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 130 x 220 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.371; M.371
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

TECHNIQUE

Railway Station, Voves is pure etching except for the faint drypoint butterfly. The subject was drawn - except for the long lines of the railway and fence - with short, wriggly and zigzag lines, dots, curves and dashes.

PRINTING

The first proof was printed in black ink on cream 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710105), the second in black on ivory laid (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710104) and the third, in black on ivory laid paper with the watermark of an Eagle with Basel Crozier (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710103). Other impressions were printed in black ink on cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3720202) and buff paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3720203). All were printed with pale tone, and were trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with Whistler's butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he had printed them.