Fumette's Bent Head |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.287) | |
| Number: | 58 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left (2) | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower left (2) | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.57; M.57; T.70; W.51 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
TECHNIQUE
PRINTING
It is very rare, with only four or five impressions before cancellation. In addition there may have been a print-run of twenty impressions from the cancelled plate.
Early proofs were printed in black ink on Japan paper (
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); several on cream 'modern' (post-1800) laid paper watermarked with a horned crown (, , ); and others on ivory laid paper (i.e. ), including one on medium-weight ivory laid paper with Strasbourg Lily watermark ().