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Wheelwright

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8557
State: 9/9

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Bought on 14 January 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10621  

 

Paper size:132 x 176 mm  
Plate mark size:126 x 176 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Asian laid  
Note on the paper:The paper colour is ivory discoloured to buff  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:some light tone over the floor in the foreground and middleground  
Note on foul biting:many scattered flecks, tiny acid droplets and directional patches; regular foul biting at left and upper center and a series of prominent acid drops at the upper right corner  
Print note:New state after Kennedy's fifth and final state  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly at lower left and a faint trace of a second butterfly on the beam at upper left  
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:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 32 to 48 mm from left; butterfly of ca 1886  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'(DD 772)' at lower right on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Wheelwright' at lower left on the verso; '4' at lower right on the verso; '500oo' (the oo superscript) at lower right on the verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K2330511  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.