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Palaces, Brussels

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46985)
Number: 338
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 222 x 142 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 16
Catalogues: K.361; M.355; W.252
Impressions taken from this plate  (16)

TECHNIQUE

Palaces, Brussels, is primarily an etching. Tiny patches of fine diagonals above and behind the single figure under the second window from the right, visible in the first and second states, may be drypoint or could be marks left by a scraper. Patches of drypoint were definitely added to the façades of the houses at left and centre in the second state.

PRINTING

Impressions of Palaces, Brussels were printed both in brown and in black ink on a variety of papers. Laid papers predominate, several with watermarks, such as a crown over 'GR' (Graphic with a link to impression #K3610102, Graphic with a link to impression #K3610103, Graphic with a link to impression #K3610107), hunting horn in shield (Graphic with a link to impression #K3610104), 'PRO PATRIA' (Graphic with a link to impression #K3610111) and indecipherable (Graphic with a link to impression #K3610112). It was also printed on thin Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3610105, Graphic with a link to impression #K3610110). By far the majority were trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.