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185

Old Putney Bridge

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.372
State: 5/7

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:300 x 450 mm  
Plate mark size:202 x 297 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:Pro Patria  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light, fairly even tone, slightly darker at the top and right.  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks  
Print note:As Kennedy did not reproduce an impression of the second state, there is some confusion; this impression is later than FGA 1905.176 (also catalogued as second state), with a number of additions; see the State Description below based on a comparison with Kennedy's illustration of the third state.  

 

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 'imp'  
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:large shaded butterfly  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W145 Putney Bridge' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1780203  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.