Portrait of a man |  Art Institute of Chicago (1924.637) | |
| Number: | 73 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1860.' | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 30 | |
| Catalogues: | K.63; M.63; T.72; W.58 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (30) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed 'Whistler.' and dated '1860.' diagonally across the lower left corner.
The forehead and face are shaded by strong lines; there is a clear angular space to left of the chair-frame, below the roll of the cape over the right wrist.
State 2
There is additional shading on the face, hair and whiskers; vertical shading is extended below the edge of the cape, where it is folded back from his wrist; fine vertical lines are added at the right, on the panelling seen over the balustrade; a white spot to right of the figure, at the edge of the panelling, is partly shaded by thin vertical lines; four longer irregular vertical lines are added to right of this.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with crossed diagonal and zigzag lines, particularly over the face. There are childish sketches on the plate (not by Whistler), including a head and shoulders upside down, at the bottom of the plate, eyes at upper right, and butterflies at upper right and at the bottom.