UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Axenfeld

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.304)
Number: 68
Date: 1860
Medium: drypoint
Size: 230 x 153 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left (2-final)
Inscribed: '1860.' at lower left (2-final)
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 31
Catalogues: K.64; M.64; T.52; W.61
Impressions taken from this plate  (31)

TECHNIQUE

Drypoint, the figure drawn with great freedom and confidence, the face with more delicate detail.

PRINTING

Two impressions of the first state have been located (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K0640102), both printed in black ink on Japan paper. An impression of the second state is also printed on Japan (Graphic with a link to impression #K0640201) and of the third, on 'modern' (post- 1800) laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0640202). Later impressions are all in black ink, but on a variety of papers including an off-white laid paper with a partial watermark ('...KE...', Graphic with a link to impression #K0640306), off-white Asian ('India') paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K0640307) and ivory Japan (Graphic with a link to impression #K0640304).
Impressions from the cancelled plate are mostly printed in black ink on laid paper and usually bound in with editions of cancelled plates as published by the Fine Art Society in 1879 (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K0640303).