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Portrait sketches including F.R. Leyland and Whistler

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(50327)
Number: 122
Date: 1874/1875
Medium: drypoint
Size: 305 x 178 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 17
Catalogues: K.101; M.102
Impressions taken from this plate  (17)

TECHNIQUE

It is lightly drawn in drypoint and printed with very little tone.

PRINTING

No impression are known from the plate before cancellation. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. It is likely that the complete print-run was about 20. Impressions from the cancelled plate are usually printed in black ink on ivory or cream laid paper. Watermarks include the Strasbourg Lily (Graphic with a link to impression #K1010204, Graphic with a link to impression #K1010210) and Van Gelder (Graphic with a link to impression #K1010211).