UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
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 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260103, Graphic with a link to impression #K4260104).

PRINTING

Only two impressions of The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 have been located (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260103, Graphic with a link to impression #K4260104). 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 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260104) - was signed on a tab with the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he had printed it.