The etched work of Whistler : illustrated by reproductions in collotype of the different states of the plates
A 1910 catalogue raisonné by Edward G. Kennedy, published by the Grolier Club in New York for collectors and print scholars, reproducing James McNeill Whistler's etchings in collotype across their successive states. The plates show the same scenes of Venice and London streets, docks and interiors reworked from one state to the next, with loose hatching, pale grey tones and open white paper. A designer could study how a few lines of dry-point suggest architecture, water and figures with economy, and how a composition is simplified stage by stage.
