UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

A Man Reading

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1893.84)
Number: 107
Date: 1873/1877
Medium: drypoint
Size: 280 x 190 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.137; M.136
Impressions taken from this plate  (18)

TECHNIQUE

An unfinished drypoint.

PRINTING

It was published in the 'Cancelled Set' by The Fine Art Society in London in 1879. All known impressions are from the cancelled plate, and all are printed in black ink. One is on cream wove paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1370208) but most are on ivory (Graphic with a link to impression #K1370203) or cream (Graphic with a link to impression #K1370202) laid paper, some with a watermark: a horned crown (Graphic with a link to impression #K1370207) and Strasbourg Lily (Graphic with a link to impression #K1370210).