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Nocturne Shipping | ||
Number: | 206 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 157 x 222 mm | |
Signed: | no | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 8 | |
Catalogues: | K.223; M.220; W.194 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is a different size from any other plate. It was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 8
8: Getscher 1970 .
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with one diagonal line across the lower left corner.