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Sketching | ||
Number: | 83 | |
Date: | 1861 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 120 x 166 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right (1-3); partly removed (4-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | Junior Etching Club, 1862 | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 35 | |
Catalogues: | K.86; M.87; T.86; W.69 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (35) |
STATE
Six states are known.
State 2
The whole composition is strengthened in drypoint, including drypoint on the man's coat-collar, the plants in the foreground, the reflections, and the trees, which are made taller.
State 4
'London, Published December 1st, 1861, by Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen,' is engraved along the bottom of the plate, and 'J. Whistler' to right of Whistler's signature, overlapping with the last 'r'; the bottom of the composition and bottom of the 'W' in 'Whistler' are partly concealed.