The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46952) | |
| Number: | 365 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 100 x 69 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.334; M.330 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This is an etching, with only a few short drypoint lines added lightly to shade the sitter's sleeve at lower right.
PRINTING
Impressions of The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir are printed in brown or dark brown ink, usually on laid paper, one with a 'Pro Patria' watermark (
). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them, usually on a tab, but in one case, on the verso ().
). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them, usually on a tab, but in one case, on the verso ().On 18 July 1889 Whistler noted that he had four unmounted impressions of 'Fur Tippet'. 10
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two impressions, one of which was trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' (). She also asked Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) to print two impressions from the copper plate, and noted that this was done on 25 January 1904 11 She kept one of these ().
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two impressions, one of which was trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' (
). She also asked Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) to print two impressions from the copper plate, and noted that this was done on 25 January 1904 11 She kept one of these (). 10: GUW #13235.
11: Letterbook, Glasgow University Library, Whistler LB6/261.