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Penny Passengers, Limehouse

Whereabouts unknown
Accession no: n/a
State: 2/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York, 1910.  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:81 x 208 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:n/a  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):n/a  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:n/a  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:n/a  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:butterfly possibly of 1886/1890s  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):n/a  
Notes on inscriptions:The tab is semi-circular- it may be that Whistler signed the paper but did not trim it. The butterfly, if it is by Whistler, dates from much later- an 1890s butterfly on an 1860s print. It is drawn rather high, impinging on the plate-mark, which again is unusual.  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
ID:K0670201  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.