Theatre, Loches |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.621) | |
| Number: | 418 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 101 x 68 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.387; M.388 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This is an etching with additional drypoint, mostly used to augment the shadows. Broken curved lines, dots, dashes, and patches of shading are scattered across the scene, creating isolated vignettes of the audience, full of character, like notes in a sketchbook. The background has larger areas of shading and crosshatching creating masses of shadowy flickering light and dark from which figures emerge, only partly defined.
PRINTING
Three impressions of Theatre, Loches have been located, all printed in black ink with very light tone on laid paper, trimmed to the platemark and signed with a butterfly and 'imp.' on the tab to show that Whistler printed them. The one inscribed '1st Proof' is on ivory (
), another on cream () and the third on off-white paper ().
), another on cream () and the third on off-white paper ().