UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Dyer

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.32)
Number: 192
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 306 x 240 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 10
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.219; M.216; W.189
Impressions taken from this plate  (18)
Etching: PK219_01 (plate)
The copper plate is close in size to The Traghetto [233] and The Garden [194], though slightly smaller. The verso is distinguished by small flakes of copper, and the plate was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 5
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line.