Fitzroy Square | ||
Number: | 183 | |
Date: | 1878/1881 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 127 x 92 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | T. R. Way, 1912 | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.App.3; M.app. 4 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
Whistler drew the scene on the copper plate with an etching needle, but the acid-resistant ground was deficient in some way, and he did not etch it. The plate was kept by Thomas Way (1837-1915), and bitten successfully by Francis Short (1857-1945) after Whistler's death. 7
7: Mansfield 1909[more] (App. IV).
The plate was cancelled with a single line from the upper left corner to the lower right corner. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
8: Acc. No. 1933.667.