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Rotherhithe

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.51
State: C/6

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:370 x 267 mm  
Plate mark size:273 x 199 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light  
Note on foul biting:scratch and dots  
Print note:Printed from cancelled plate.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1860.'  
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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Impression of the destroyed plate of Whistler's "Rotherhith" (london) / All of the sixteen plates of the "Thames Etchings" are destroyed, an impression from each (as destroyed) is now in the public collection of Paris, - the Bibliotheque Nationale. Rue de Richelieu.' in pen on recto;  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0660408  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.