The title of this work, A Sketch in Platinum, was published as a full page illustration in Camera Notes  along with other examples by Stieglitz and Joseph Keiley showing readers the possibilities of manipulation that could be achieved from Platinum prints.

Caption under the Camera Notes illustration of this work:

“A reproduction from the same negative, in which the dominating idea of the picture is that of a simple sketch from which offensive and distracting detail have been eliminated, the drawing and general character being the same as that presented in the original print.” 1.

1. Camera Notes: Volume III: #4 : Published by the Camera Club: New York: 1899: p. 231