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The Sail

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1903.16)
Number: 98
Date: 1863
Medium: drypoint
Size: 211 x 135 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.157; M.154
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

TECHNIQUE

This is an unfinished drypoint.

PRINTING

Whistler wrote on the sole surviving impression, ''The Sail - / only two proofs pulled / plate destroyed -' (). This was printed in black ink on ivory laid paper. The second proof has not been located.