The Marketplace, Vitré, 1893Chicago 62 I/I; Levy 66; Way 40. Transfer lithograph in black printed on fine handmade laid paper with the watermark, a star in a elaborated square with J.
By WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL.
The Marketplace, Vitré, 1893Chicago 62 I/I; Levy 66; Way 40Transfer lithograph in black printed on fine handmade laid paper with the watermark, a star in a elaborated square with J. (This watermark is only found in two subjects, of which this is one) A posthumous edition of fifty-six impressions printed by Goulding in 1904, the stone was erased the same year. Way states that there were 12 life time impressions, prior to the Goulding printing. This is one of seven lithographs resulting from a the trip Whistler and his wife made to Brittany during July and August 1893. The scene was drawn either in Paimpol or Vitre on the Breton coast. The drawing for The Marketplace, Vitre was one of five subjects on fine-grained transfer paper that Whistler mailed to London upon his return to Paris from Brittany in September 1893. The drawings were transferred to stone and proved by the Way firm . Whistler had hoped for its inclusion the Studio magazine.Image size 203 x 162 mmSheet size 305 x 195mm (12 x 7.5 inches)
Published by: Goulding., 1904
Vendor: Roe and Moore
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By WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL.
The Marketplace, Vitré, 1893Chicago 62 I/I; Levy 66; Way 40Transfer lithograph in black printed on fine handmade laid paper with the watermark, a star in a elaborated square with J. (This watermark is only found in two subjects, of which this is one) A posthumous edition of fifty-six impressions printed by Goulding in 1904, the stone was erased the same year. Way states that there were 12 life time impressions, prior to the Goulding printing. This is one of seven lithographs resulting from a the trip Whistler and his wife made to Brittany during July and August 1893. The scene was drawn either in Paimpol or Vitre on the Breton coast. The drawing for The Marketplace, Vitre was one of five subjects on fine-grained transfer paper that Whistler mailed to London upon his return to Paris from Brittany in September 1893. The drawings were transferred to stone and proved by the Way firm . Whistler had hoped for its inclusion the Studio magazine.Image size 203 x 162 mmSheet size 305 x 195mm (12 x 7.5 inches)
Published by: Goulding., 1904
Vendor: Roe and Moore
