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Lady in an armchair

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1893.75)
Number: 91
Date: 1861
Medium: drypoint
Size: 230 x 153 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: '1861.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 19
Catalogues: K.79; M.80
Impressions taken from this plate  (19)

TECHNIQUE

An unfinished sketch in drypoint.

PRINTING

No impression from the uncancelled plate is known. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. Cancelled impressions are all printed in black ink, on papers including cream wove (); Strasbourg Lily watermarked laid () and cream 'modern' (post-1800) laid paper with Van Gelder watermark (). One () is cut from the same sheet of ivory laid Van Gelder paper as three other cancelled etchings (, , , ).