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The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.557)
Number: 422
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 178 x 128 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.395; M.392
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

The composition is done in pure etching.

PRINTING

Four impressions are known. The '1st Proof' was printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (); what may have been the second proof was also printed in dark brown ink on off-white, almost grey, laid paper () and what may have been the third proof, since it is inscribed '(3.)' is like the first, in brown ink on ivory laid paper ().