Exeter Street | ||
Number: | 274 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 128 x 177 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 6 | |
Catalogues: | K.280; M.275 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (6) |
TECHNIQUE
Both the original composition and the shading added in the second state are etched.
PRINTING
Impressions were printed on a range of slightly different papers, producing subtly different effects. One, possibly the first impression, was printed in dark brown ink on off-white light-weight 'antique' (pre-1800) laid paper with the watermark 'GR' (), another on cream laid paper with an 'AS PRO PATRIA' watermark () and a third in brown ink on 'modern' laid paper (). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed on a tab with the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler had printed them.
On 18 July 1889 Whistler noted that he had one impression in stock, but he may have printed a few more, for, in a list that was written between 1889 and about 1891, he recorded four unmounted impressions in stock. 5
5: GUW #13235, #13236.