An Artist Sketching |  British Museum (1916-12-16-1) | |
| Number: | 23 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 155 x 107 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | 'Treize Eaux Fortes d'apres Nature - ' at top; 'par / James. Whistler - / à / Mon viel Ami Seymour Haden.' lower centre; 'Imp. Delatre Rue St. Jacques. 171.' lower left; 'Paris Nov 1858.' lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.25½ | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This is pure etching.
PRINTING
The sole impression is printed in a warm black ink on ivory laid paper. Kennedy described it as '154.6 x 106.7 millimeters, and it is printed in very dark brown, with some tone all over the surface. The plate is irregular in shape.' 7
7: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 25 1/2).
The etching was not completed and only one proof has been located (
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