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Hôtel de la Promenade, Loches

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 391)
Number: 415
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 68 x 102 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper centre
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.391; M.387
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

TECHNIQUE

This is pure etching, with no drypoint. It was drawn with the etching needle in confident varied broken lines and short zigzags, with some curved and angular hooked lines for the figures. There is very little cross-hatching, but the lines are broken, conveying an effect of sparkling sunshine. Scattered specks suggest the plate was deteriorating.

PRINTING

Two impressions have been located, but there were at least three printed. The '1st Proof' was printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper with very light tone (Graphic with a link to impression #K3910102). Another, which is numbered 'No. 3', is in black ink on cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3910103). Unusually, they are trimmed to the platemark, but there is no tab and Whistler's signature had to be added on the verso.