The Ramparts, Sandwich | ||
Number: | 324 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 4 | |
Catalogues: | K.309; M.304 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (4) |
TECHNIQUE
It is pure etching. It was drawn with short curved, bouncy, and jagged lines, plus more sinuous lines on the figures, and a very few patches of shading. There are a lot of flecks and traces of earlier work.
PRINTING
The Ramparts, Sandwich is very rare. Two impressions are in black ink, one on ivory laid paper (
) and one on an off-white, almost grey paper (
); another is in dark brown ink on a watermarked ivory laid paper (
). All were trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.


