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Greengrocer's Shop, Paris |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.132) | |
| Number: | 471 | |
| Date: | 1892/1894 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.424; M.427 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
TECHNIQUE
The composition is mainly etched, with some additional drypoint.
PRINTING
It is rare. One impression of Greengrocer's Shop, Paris is printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with the watermark 'CR' over a crown, is inscribed '2nd proof -' (
). Curiously another is also annotated '2nd proof'; it is in black ink on buff laid paper with a Pro Patria watermark (). However, Whistler also printed a very fine, rich impression in black ink on almost transparent Japanese paper () and another on such a light-weight dark cream tissue that it was first laid down on another sheet of tissue and then on card ().
). Curiously another is also annotated '2nd proof'; it is in black ink on buff laid paper with a Pro Patria watermark (). However, Whistler also printed a very fine, rich impression in black ink on almost transparent Japanese paper () and another on such a light-weight dark cream tissue that it was first laid down on another sheet of tissue and then on card ().