UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Baby Pettigrew

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46969)
Number: 374
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 135 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly to left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.341; M.336
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

Baby Pettigrew is an etching. Patches of parallel shading overlap and cross the outlines of the figure, which is drawn with slightly uneven, jerky, broken lines, dots and dashes.

PRINTING

Five impressions have been recorded, one having stayed in Whistler's estate (Graphic with a link to impression #K3410104). The '1st Proof' is printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper with a partial 'PRO PATRIA' watermark, and is trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed it (Graphic with a link to impression #K3410106). Another impression is on cream laid paper with a similar watermark, 'Pro Patria AS' and is signed but not trimmed (Graphic with a link to impression #K3410102). A third, which is numbered 'No 3' (but not in Whistler's hand) is on ivory laid paper with a partial crown watermark, and is neither trimmed nor signed (Graphic with a link to impression #K3410104).