39The Music RoomHamburger KunsthalleAccession no: 30446 State: 1/4 |
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| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Kunsthalle, Hamburg. |
| Additional acq. no: | 1653 (old inv. no.) |
| Paper size: | 178 x 251 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 148 x 215 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | Hard paper, with visible blue and brown fibres, trimmed. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Virtually none except the corners. |
| Note on foul biting: | Fingerprints in top left corner and along right edge; pitting and foul biting along left and right margins. |
| Print note: | This impression offers an interesting variety of foul biting, fingerprints, pitting, ink residue and fabric texture (left below shelf with candlestick). |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | verso centre: brown seal of Hamburg with text 'KUNSTHALLE ZU HAMBURG' (Lugt 1233) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '8541/w' verso lower left |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Reading Family W27-I' verso lower centre; '30446' in centre; cut off inscriptions on verso lower right |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0330112 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.