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The Dam Wood |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.106) | |
| Number: | 133 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 177 x 113 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.145; M.143; W.120 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
The Dam Wood dates from 1875.
Whistler stayed at Speke Hall near Liverpool from January to March 1875. On 1 February 1875 he wrote from Speke: 'The etchings and drypoints are getting on famously - I have quite got back into my old delight in the work and think I shall have some pretty things to show you soon -
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1: Whistler to W. C. Alexander, GUW #07565.