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From Billingsgate

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1905.171
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:215 x 337 mm  
Plate mark size:150 x 225 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:The sheet was removed from a book; with sew holes in the lower margin  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Arms of Amsterdam  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:brown/black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Traces of plate tone at left, right and bottom.  
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:  

 

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:'5 - x' at lower right on the recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The '5- x' inscription may be a record of the printing sequence.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W.130, A sketch from Billingsgate. / From Thomas Way, June 1905' at lower right on the recto by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1680402  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.