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Landscape with Horses

Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession no: E.11-1905
State: 2/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Percy Thomas (1846-1922) London; 'The landscape with the horse' bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, January 1905.  
Additional acq. no:EE.2A  

 

Paper size:201 x 260 mm  
Plate mark size:126 x 201 mm  
Other size:chine collĂ© 124 x 199 mm  
Note on size:slightly rough edge at bottom  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:dark cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):chine colle on wove  
Note on the paper:slightly greyish paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light and even  
Note on foul biting:Pitting throughout; foul biting around edges; fabric marks in sky and meadow; etched granular tone in buildings and field; in foreground curved (polish?) lines and diagonal lines.  
Print note:some velvety areas of drypoint burr; in foreground small area where ink left from wiping.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler - 1859.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
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:'NAL' black ink stamp crossing over platemark in lower right corner, recto (variation of Lugt 1958); 'V.A.M.' circular black ink stamp on verso (Lugt 2503).  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'E.11-1905.'verso, black ink; verso, pencil, 'Landscape with a horse'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0360218  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.