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Bead Stringers

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession no: ?
State: 11/11

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold per G. Lauser to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, May 1888, as part of an album of the Second Venice Set for £52.10.0 (stock no. 14359); bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston, 1890; bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1924.  

 

Paper size:233 x 155 mm  
Plate mark size:227 x 152 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light, more at edges  
Note on foul biting:at the corners, and small spots and texture  
Print note:slightly soft effect in shadows, worn or rubbed  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'37' above the door  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'AWT' (Thibaudeau, not in Lugt) in graphite pencil on verso of tab  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1980806  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.