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The Wine Glass | Freer Gallery of Art (1888.21) |
Number: | 38 |
Date: | 1859 |
Medium: | etching |
Size: | 83 x 55 mm |
Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 40 |
Catalogues: | K.27; M.27; T.28; W.31 |
Impressions taken from this plate (40) |
STATE
State 1
Signed 'Whistler' at lower left.
The composition is complete.
The background is shaded with horizontal lines.
State 2
Close vertical and diagonal lines cross the plate from the top to the tray.
Some impressions are more fully inked and therefore darker, but have no additional work, as in the impression below.