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Venus

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.295)
Number: 60
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 230 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower left
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.59; M.59; T.27; W.56
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)

STATE

Two states are known.

State 1

Etching: K0590107
Signed and dated 'Whistler. 1859.' at lower left.
Traces of an earlier etching showing the same figure are visible upside down at lower right.

State 2

Etching: K0590203
Vertical and diagonal lines are added in the upper right corner.
The impression reproduced is very slightly foxed.