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188

Old Battersea Bridge

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1924.647
State: 5/7

Collection credit:Bequest of Ethel Wrenn  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow probably before 1902. John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago; bequeathed to his family, 1911; bequeathed by Ethel Wrenn, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1924.  

 

Paper size:257 x 406 mm  
Plate mark size:203 x 296 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:'EVH'  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone  
Note on foul biting:texture of dots and dashes  
Print note:A good looking impression, strong, despite fairly prominent 'wiping' scratches in the plate in the sky above the arch of the bridge at right and beneath the right section of the span.  

 

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:butterfly and 'imp.' in margin, lower left  
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:pencil butterfly of 1890s  
Collector's mark:'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); and 'J.H.W.' (John H. Wrenn, Lugt 1475)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'148' underlined at lower right verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1770402  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.