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The Venetian Mast

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Accession no: 456-1882
State: 6/12

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin  
Provenance:Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1882, as part of a group of 301 prints for £685.7.3.  

 

Paper size:458 x 312/317 mm  
Plate mark size:340 x 164 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:possibly from old book  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:n/a  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:medium plate tone, in a slightly darker shade at the top and bottom edges  
Note on foul biting:granular tone across the boy in the foreground at left, below the open window shutter at far right and near the left margin; fine pitting on the figures in the foreground at left  
Print note:thin scratched horizontal lines across the plate; a light area left of the standing man on the right; two sweeps of ink reticulation in the lower right quadrant and three more in the lower left quadrant  

 

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' below platemark, left, in pencil  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'c x.' on recto below platemark, right  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The pencil butterfly dates from 1880 and the notations refer to the selection of etchings for sale and exhibition  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1950510  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.