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Atelier de Bijouterie

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49909)
Number: 378
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 127 x 216 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.433; M.430
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

TECHNIQUE

This is pure etching, with many lines very deeply etched.

PRINTING

Only three impressions of Atelier de Bijouterie are known. All were printed in black ink. One impression, which stayed in Whistler's possession, was on buff laid paper (). One, which was marked 'Early proof -', is on cream Asian laid paper(), and the third, on dark cream Japanese paper (). All were trimmed to the platemark, leaving a tab for the butterfly signature, but Whistler did not sign the one in his studio.