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The Pool

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1927.5916
State: 6/6

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Charles Deering (1852-1927), Chicago; acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1927.  

 

Paper size:199 x 321 mm  
Plate mark size:137 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:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Pro Patria  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with some very light plate tone near the plate corners.  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Kennedy's description of state four mentions only undulating lines at centre; in fact, there are also fine horizontals and right-left diagonals throughout the sky, heavier at the left; very faint traces of lines in water and at lower left and right remain.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. / 1859.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:on signboards, 'COOPER', 'Gr GEORGE'S Wf', 'NEW CRANE / TO LET'; on boat, 'JANE No. 6'  
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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:#19' at lower right verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0430402  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.