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Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.1
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916); bought with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:262 x 415 mm  
Plate mark size:144 x 256 mm  
Other size:130 x 245 image mm  
Note on size:The platemark is not clear  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'MBM' twice  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone  
Note on foul biting:A few dots in the bottom half  
Print note:A good clear impression.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'JW'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:Whistler was not dismissed from the Coast Survey for doing this etching!  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Whistler's first etching. For doing this he was dismissed from the Coast Survey - '; '8'; '20 -'; in various hands.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0010109  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.