Nora Quinn |  Library of Congress (FP-XIX-W576, no. 333) | |
| Number: | 364 | |
| Date: | 1887/1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 218 x 129 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.333; M.329 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This is an etching, drawn with loose, wavy outlines and patches of widely spaced shading.
PRINTING
It is very rare. Three impressions of Nora Quinn have been located. One is printed in dark brown ink on cream laid paper (
), another on off-white laid paper with a Crowned 'GR' with crossed branches in a circle, the countermark to PRO PATRIA / MVD (), both being trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed them. The third is a cancelled impression in dark brown ink on ivory wove paper ().
), another on off-white laid paper with a Crowned 'GR' with crossed branches in a circle, the countermark to PRO PATRIA / MVD (), both being trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed them. The third is a cancelled impression in dark brown ink on ivory wove paper ().