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Stéphane Mallarmé |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49927) | |
| Number: | 462 | |
| Date: | 1891/1892 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 175 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
TECHNIQUE
It is a drypoint, tentatively drawn with broken lines and a little diagonal shading. Whistler seems to have rubbed down the copper plate, and did not complete the portrait.
PRINTING
Only two proofs appear to have been printed (
, ). One impression is in dark brown ink on light grey medium-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (), the other in black ink on ivory, Pro Patria watermarked, laid paper (). Neither are trimmed or signed. It is not absolutely certain that the plate was printed by Whistler.
, ). One impression is in dark brown ink on light grey medium-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (), the other in black ink on ivory, Pro Patria watermarked, laid paper (). Neither are trimmed or signed. It is not absolutely certain that the plate was printed by Whistler.