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The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46952)
Number: 365
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 100 x 69 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.334; M.330
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

TECHNIQUE

This is an etching, with only a few short drypoint lines added lightly to shade the sitter's sleeve at lower right.

PRINTING

Impressions of The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir are printed in brown or dark brown ink, usually on laid paper, one with a 'Pro Patria' watermark (). All are trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler with a butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them, usually on a tab, but in one case, on the verso ().
On 18 July 1889 Whistler noted that he had four unmounted impressions of 'Fur Tippet'. 10

Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two impressions, one of which was trimmed to the platemark and signed by Whistler on the tab with a butterfly and 'imp.' (). She also asked Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) to print two impressions from the copper plate, and noted that this was done on 25 January 1904 11 She kept one of these ().

10: GUW #13235.

11: Letterbook, Glasgow University Library, Whistler LB6/261.