UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Booth at a Fair

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1903.40)
Number: 257
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 133 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.249; M.245; W.203
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

TECHNIQUE

The composition was outlined in etched lines. Dense cross-hatching built up the shadowed area of the awning. The drypoint shading wore down in late impressions.

PRINTING

There was a very small print-run. Whistler printed the first impressions in 1886, and then printed a further four impressions on 26 September 1887. 10

One was printed in black ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2490106), and several in dark brown ink on similar paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2490103, Graphic with a link to impression #K2490104, Graphic with a link to impression #K2490102). In the latter, the drypoint appears to be wearing down.

10: Note, [26 September 1887], GUW #12716.