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The Kitchen

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession no: 33.14
State: 2/3

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Robert Treat Paine, II (1835-1910); given to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, January 1933.  

 

Paper size:322 x 245 mm  
Plate mark size:226 x 155 mm  
Other size:225 x 154 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:tan  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):chine  
Note on the paper:mounted on off-white wove  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone, giving a warm impression, and wiped cleaner at the window.  
Note on foul biting:particularly at bottom, and textured area  
Print note:Reasonable impression, effective in the shadows.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' (faint)  
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:The Delatre inscription is faint. [where to put this? Above or here as a note?]  
Collector's mark:MFA (Lugt 282)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'The Kitchen etched by Whistler Plate destroyed This Impression of the early printing and finest quality'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0240210  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.