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Rag Shop, St Martin's Lane

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54860)
Number: 328
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 84 x 185 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.282; M.277
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

TECHNIQUE

This plate was executed in pure etching.

PRINTING

Rag Shop, St Martin's Lane is very rare. Impressions were printed in black ink; the first proof was printed on ivory laid paper, selectively wiped - the image is fairly clean, but there is darker tone around it, particularly at the left and right edges (Graphic with a link to impression #K2820102). Another, annotated in an unknown hand 'First Impr.' is likewise in black on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K2820104). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that they had been printed by Whistler.