UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Mairie, Loches

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1889.7)
Number: 413
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 220 x 130 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 12
Catalogues: K.382; M.382; W.259
Impressions taken from this plate  (12)

TECHNIQUE

Mairie, Loches was mostly done in etching, with some drypoint reinforcing the closely worked shading in the window.

PRINTING

The first state was printed in black ink, one impression being on light-weight ivory laid paper with the watermark 'GR' under a crown (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820102). The second state was printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820203) and laid Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820204).
The third and fourth states - which are very hard to distinguish and differentiated by no more than a slight rubbing down of the shadows - was printed on a variety of laid papers. One impression is in black ink on a cream paper with 'PRO PATRIA' watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820103). Most are in dark brown ink, for instance, on cream 'antique' (pre-1800) paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820308), ivory (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820307) and cream papers (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820305); cream with Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820303) and ivory paper with an 'HR' countermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820302). One is on laid Japanese (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820204) and another on ivory Asian paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3820306).
All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with Whistler's butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them.