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Alderney Street

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession no: M20023
State: reproduction B/3

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1837-1900), first MFA curator of prints, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  

 

Paper size:384 x 279 mm  
Plate mark size:175 x 110 mm  
Other size:165 x 102 image mm  
Note on size:platemark to outside edge of bevel  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:electrotype  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:moderate overall tone  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:This is an electrotype from Gazette des Beaux-Arts. This plate removed from copy of S. R. Koehler, Etching (NY:1885), facing p. 162  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'A Street in London' lower left  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
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:  
Collector's mark:MFA (Lugt 282)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Taken from S. R. Keohler's book on Etching' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2380z05  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.