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St James Street decorated with bunting

Impression: Whistler Etchings Project
Whistler Etchings Project
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Number: 326
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

TECHNIQUE

This etching was drawn quickly, with broken long and short wriggly and jagged lines, creating the effect of a windy day, with the flags and people in movement. It looks as if Whistler was trying to alter some detail in the centre of the plate, but then abandoned it.

PRINTING

No impressions of St James Street decorated with bunting are known.