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Bird Shop - Seven Dials |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46898) | |
| Number: | 384 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 135 x 98 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.281; M.276 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
TECHNIQUE
Bird Shop - Seven Dials is pure etching.
PRINTING
The '1st proof' was printed in black ink on a light-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper (
). Most impressions were printed in black ink on laid paper, though one was on cream Japanese paper ().
). Most impressions were printed in black ink on laid paper, though one was on cream Japanese paper (). After Whistler died, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) commissioned Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print from the plate, which was in quite good condition, before it was cancelled. 11 Two signed impressions by Sparks were printed in black ink, one on ivory laid paper with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (; see also ).
; see also ).11: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 344, 352.