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The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49910) | |
| Number: | 444 | |
| Date: | 1889/1890 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.426; M.423 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
TECHNIQUE
It is pure etching. The plate appears to have been damaged and both impressions show extensive light, dense, granular foul biting (
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, ).PRINTING
Only two impressions of The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 have been located (, ). Both were printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with a partial 'PRO PATRIA' watermark. Both were trimmed to the platemark but only one - the one kept by Whistler () - was signed on a tab with the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he had printed it.
, ). Both were printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with a partial 'PRO PATRIA' watermark. Both were trimmed to the platemark but only one - the one kept by Whistler () - was signed on a tab with the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he had printed it.