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Landscape with Horses

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54871)
Number: 45
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 205 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower left
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 32
Catalogues: K.36; M.35; T.23; W.46
Impressions taken from this plate  (32)

STATE

Two states are known.

State 1

Impression: K0360104
Signed and inscribed 'Whistler. 1859.' at lower left.
There is only one horse; there are two men on the path in the distance at right.

State 2

Impression: K0360214
A second horse and heavy clouds are added; the contour of the trees is altered; the tall trees at left and right are bigger, the one at upper right covering up one of the men on the path; more foliage, grass and texture are added to the landscape in drypoint.