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Ratcliffe Highway

Hunterian Art Gallery
Accession no: 53567
State: 1/1

Collection credit:The Hunterian, University of Glasgow  
Image credit:Photo © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow  
Provenance:Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; possbily sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 126). Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York; sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore, Naugatuck, CT, 1919. William Sloane-Kinney. Susan Shulman, printsellers, New York; bought by the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 2001.  

 

Paper size:200 x 281 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:grey  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:The paper has brown fibrous inclusions  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:A fine, expressive impression with rich burr.  

 

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:butterfly 'imp', in pencil on lower margin, left of centre, recto.  
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:The butterfly is probably of late 1890s.  
Collector's mark:'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394) on recto; 'WD' underlined on verso; 'HW' grey stamp (Whittemore, Lugt 1384a) on verso; 'JHH' blind stamp (Hutchinson, Lugt 2921) on recto; 'HM' blue stamp (Lugt 1342) on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0800103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.