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The Dyer |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.32) | |
| Number: | 192 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 306 x 240 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 10 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.219; M.216; W.189 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
The copper plate is close in size to The Traghetto, No. 2
[233] and The Garden
[194], though slightly smaller. The verso is distinguished by small flakes of copper, and the plate was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 5
5: Getscher 1970 .
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line.