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Windsor Castle

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.16)
Number: 314
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 134 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.330; M.325
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

TECHNIQUE

Windsor Castle was executed in pure etching. There are patches of foul biting.

PRINTING

The first impression - one of only two known impressions - is printed in black ink on buff laid paper - possibly an Asian laid paper - with light tone (). It is trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed it.