Mallarmé |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54940) | |
| Number: | 461 | |
| Date: | 1891/1892 | |
| Medium: | unbitten; drawn with an etching needle through ground that has been removed | |
| Size: | 102 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
TECHNIQUE
It was drawn in drypoint, with repeated broken outlines and patches of parallel hatching.
PRINTING
It is likely that Whistler pulled one or two proofs of the drypoint before abandoning the plate.
A dozen impressions were pulled at Glasgow Print Studio in the 1970s by Beth Fisher (b. 1944). She commented that the drypoint lines were very fine and wearing down fast, and the plate was therefore difficult to print. It was printed both in black ink (, ) and dark brown ink (, ) on ivory medium-weight machine-made laid paper. A few impressions were printed in brown ink on a heavy-weight wove paper (), some with a conspicuous use of print tone to augment the fading drypoint ().