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The Doorway | ||
Number: | 193 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching, drypoint and roulette | |
Size: | 295 x 204 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
No. of States: | 20 | |
Known impressions: | 66 | |
Catalogues: | K.188; M.185; W.154 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (66) |
TECHNIQUE
11: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 154).
12: 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, 10 December 1880 (GUL PC4/19).
PRINTING
The first eight states were printed between 1880 and 1881. They include impressions in black ink on ivory laid paper (















17: Whistler to Huish, 3 July 1892, GUW #02969.



22: Whistler to Huish, [14 August 1894], GUW #01277.
24: Huish to R. B. Philip, 1 Aug., 14 Sept., 22 and 29 Oct., 13 Nov., 3, 12, 14 and 17 Dec. 1903, GUL F323-4, 326; Philip to Huish, 15 Sept., 26 Oct., 18 Dec. 1903, GUL P485, F327-31, F333-35; MacDonald 2001 , pp. 132-133.
25: Letter book Whistler LB6/261, Glasgow University Library.