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164

Pickle Herring Wharf

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1905.173
State: 6/8

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:218 x 342 mm  
Plate mark size:150 x 227 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:beehive DEDB  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:With light tone ar right and on the water  
Note on foul biting:Considerable foul biting on the sky and on the water at lower left and lower right; the centre of the water appears to have been cleaned  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
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:'137 -- Very early state -- Before any shading on boats in foreground -- T Way.' partly erased on 2 January 1924; '2nd state.' written by C.L. Freer in margin, erased 25 March 1924 (according to FGA folder sheet); '5 = X 21' in unidentified writing on recto.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1670502  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.