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Marchand de Vin, Paris | ||
Number: | 438 | |
Date: | 1888/1893 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 82 x 201 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 3 | |
Catalogues: | K.421; M.429 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (3) |
TECHNIQUE
This is pure etching.
PRINTING
Only three impressions are known, and the third of these was presumably the one acquired by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) annotated ''3rd Proof ' by Whistler (). It was printed in black ink on cream Asian laid paper, as was . Another impression in is black on light-weight fibrous Japanese paper (), which was also used for an impression of Rue de Vannes, Paris
[435] ().