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Black Lion Wharf

British Museum
Accession no: 1973-09-15-15
State: 2/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Trustees of the British Museum  
Provenance:Acquired from Whistler by W. C. Alexander; passed by family descent to his daughter, Rachel Alexander; sold by her executors with 19 other etchings for a total of £3165.0.0 to the British Museum, London, 1973 (Report of Gere, Keeper of the Print Room, 17 17 August 1973, Trustees Reports).  
Additional acq. no:PRN: PPA49932  

 

Paper size:267 x 363 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 224 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid?  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'HUDELIST', partial, with bottom half of letters cut off, (see bottom half in K0400204)  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Very light overall tone.  
Note on foul biting:Some flecks, particularly at the edge and corners and one blot at bottom left just above the corner. The textured area below the rowboat at left is faint.  
Print note:The sky to left of the chimney is cleaned up but has a vertical scratch.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1859.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:on signboards : 'HOARES WHARF', 'DOWNES', 'OLD SHIPPING CLIPPERS / TO LET EVERY DAY / GLASGOW INVERNES[S] / GRANGEMOUTH PETERH[E]A[D]', 'St. ANDREWS', 'BLAC[K] LION W[HA]RF' (the first 'N' in 'INVERNESS' is reversed)  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler.' in pen on insert in margin  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'1st. State. / Early proof -' on insert in margin  
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:K0420221  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.