Venus |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.295) | |
| Number: | 60 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 153 x 230 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 27 | |
| Catalogues: | K.59; M.59; T.27; W.56 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (27) | ||
STATE
Two states are known.
State 1
Signed and dated 'Whistler. 1859.' at lower left.
Traces of an earlier etching showing the same figure are visible upside down at lower right.
State 2
Vertical and diagonal lines are added in the upper right corner.
The impression reproduced is very slightly foxed.