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Vauxhall Bridge |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.313) | |
| Number: | 75 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 69 x 114 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861' at lower right (G.2) | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.70; M.70; T.46; W.66 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
STATE
Two states are known.
State 1
Signed 'Whistler.' at lower right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Dated '1861.' below and to left of the signature.
More fine vertical shading is added under the third arch from the right; long slightly curving lines are added to the clouds; drypoint lines are added to the wooden structure at extreme left; a vise has left a group of short parallel lines in the lower left corner; a few uneven horizontal lines are added on the hulls of the barges.