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Whistler with the White Lock |  Freer Gallery of Art (1891.15) | |
| Number: | 162 | |
| Date: | 1876/1879 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 118 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 34 | |
| Catalogues: | K.172; M.169; W.142 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (34) | ||
Whistler with the white lock dates from between 1876 and 1879; stylistically, a date early in this period is indicated.
It may have been the drypoint 'Head' sold by Whistler in 1877. 1
Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) dated this drypoint 1879, which is too late, although it was published in set of cancelled plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879. 2
It may have been the drypoint 'Head' sold by Whistler in 1877. 1
Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) dated this drypoint 1879, which is too late, although it was published in set of cancelled plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879. 2
1: Whistler to C. A. Howell, [6-25 November 1877], GUW #02178.
2: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 142).