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Bird-Cages, Chelsea

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1937.172)
Number: 297
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.276; M.271
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

TECHNIQUE

This is an etching, with just a small amount of drypoint shading added near the doorways.

PRINTING

There was a limited print-run. Impressions were printed on a variety of papers. One is in black ink on cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2760102), another on ivory (darkened to buff) with the watermark of an Eagle with the Basel Crozier (Graphic with a link to impression #K2760104). Others are in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2760103) and fine cream laid paper watermarked 'D' (Graphic with a link to impression #K2760201). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.