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La Mère Gérard

British Museum
Accession no: 1866.10.13.604
State: 4/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Trustees of the British Museum  
Provenance:Philippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris; sold to the British Museum, London, 1866.  
Additional acq. no:PRN: PPA49186  

 

Paper size:200 x 138 mm  
Plate mark size:126 x 89 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:sl. browned off no  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove (sight)  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no (sight)  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Light tone, more to the right centre, quite strong under the shadow at the right; the effect is of a warm brown/black  
Note on foul biting: there are flecks of light scratchings on the plate  
Print note:Slight flecks and textured marks around inscription possibly burnishing as well as etched lines  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques. 171.' ('J' reversed)  
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:  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0110423  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.