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Nocturne

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.86
State: 6/9

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:John Pomeroy Townsend (1832-1898), New York. Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:214 x 298 mm  
Plate mark size:202 x 297 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:pale cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:Asian?  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:deep soft tone, slightly abraded so fibres show; graduated tone, wiped with strokes radiating from horizon  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:warm black ink, umber effect in tone; hazy effects, powerful image with hazy storm-threatening atmosphere, and misty drypoint gondola.  

 

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:  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:pencil butterfly of 1880/1881; tab 52-73 mm from left  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'hts' blindstamp;'JPT' blue stamp (J.P. Townsend, not in Lugt) on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1840306  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.