The Storm |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.323) | |
| Number: | 81 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 156 x 286 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.81; M.83; T.74; W.77 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation and partial restoration of the plate.
State 1
Signed 'Whistler.' and dated '1861.' at lower right.
The composition is complete; remnants of an earlier subject are visible at lower right.
State 2
Horizontal lines are added to the white areas between the sky and upper plate mark, and to the river at right; fine right to left diagonals (///) in the sky extend the shading to the plate edges.
State 3
Three left to right diagonals (\\\) are added to the bottom of the man's right trouser leg; the wildflower at left of the clump of three at the bottom consists of burr on a crooked line.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled lightly with crossed diagonal lines.
State 3 (after cancellation)
The plate shows signs of deterioration; cancellation lines have been reduced or disguised in printing.
Re-issued by Wunderlich & Co. in 1889.