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Young Woman Standing

Impression: Whereabouts unknown
Whereabouts unknown
Number: 333
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: drypoint
Size: 213 x 124 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 0
Catalogues: K.132; M.345
Impressions taken from this plate  (0)
Young Woman Standing dates from 1887 or 1888. The style of costume can be dated to 1887, but variations on this style could have been worn over a longer period. 1

The copper plate was close in size to Nude Woman Standing 332 and The Church - Brussels (Adoration) 340. The first of these is difficult to date precisely but the second dates from 1887.

Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), who owned the sole impression of the drypoint (), grouped it with plates dating from 1887, such as Fish Women, Ostend 349. 2 Mansfield's impression of Young Woman Standing was trimmed to the platemark and signed in graphite pencil on the tab with a butterfly that can be dated to between 1887 and 1889.

Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) did not give dates in his catalogue but he grouped the drypoint with plates dating from the mid- to late 1870s, such as Girl Standing 152 and The Desk 129. However, this was incorrect. 3

1: See 'Evening Toilette', Harper's Bazaar, 5 March 1887, in 'Fashions of the 1880's' on-line at www.vintagevictorian.com (accessed 2009).

2: Mansfield 1909[more] (cat. no. 345).

3: Kennedy 1910[more] (cat. no. 132).