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The Lime-Burner

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: R218NA
State: 1/2

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, John Witt Randall Fund  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Acquired by the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.  

 

Paper size:323 x 249 mm  
Plate mark size:248 x 178 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:taken from an old book, marks of sewing and binding down the left side.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean wiped  
Note on foul biting:in foreground  
Print note:The lines in the foreground doorway are strong; plate slipped a hair while printing? Dpb  

 

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:butterfly below platemark  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'Fine proof -' [butterfly] on verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The butterfly in pencil may date from about 1888/1890- but it is very small and rather far from the print, which is unusual.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0460120  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.