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Fitzroy Square |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.204) | |
| Number: | 183 | |
| Date: | 1878/1881 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 92 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | T. R. Way, 1912 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.App.3; M.app. 4 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
Whistler drew the scene on the copper plate with an etching needle, but the acid-resistant ground was deficient in some way, and he did not etch it. The plate was kept by Thomas Way (1837-1915), and bitten successfully by Francis Short (1857-1945) after Whistler's death. 7
7: Mansfield 1909 (App. IV).
The plate was cancelled with a single line from the upper left corner to the lower right corner. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
8: Acc. No. 1933.667.