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From Billingsgate

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.362
State: 4/8

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:219 x 345 mm  
Plate mark size:150 x 225 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:De Erven Dk Blauw  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour: black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of tone near the plate edges; with an inky plate mark  
Note on foul biting:Tiny pits and scratches in the sky, particularly between the lines extending to the bow of the leftmost ship  
Print note:The ink appears a warm black or dark brown on this paper.  

 

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: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:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W130 1st State before the monogram' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1680202  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.