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Seymour

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.442)
Number: 30
Date: 1858/1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 135 x 99 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: ' "Seymour" ' at lower left (2-final)
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 29
Catalogues: K.31; M.32; T.17; W.23
Impressions taken from this plate  (29)
Etching: PK031_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the stamp of Whistler's main suppliers, HUGHES & KIMBER / RED LION PASSAGE / FLEET STREET / LONDON' (partly obscured). It is close in size to Seymour Haden, Jr, Seated [9] and Nursemaid and Child [42].
The plate was steel-faced but not cancelled. It was acquired by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), in 1906. It is now in the Freer Gallery of Art. 10

10: Acc. No. 1906.210.