257Booth at a FairFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.40 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 131 x 96 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 131 x 96 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| 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: | pale tone, heavier at the top and along the right side |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks |
| Print note: | Good clear impression. The only drypoint is the right-left diagonal shading in the dark area above the slightly bending figure; the drypoint is more worn in this impression than on 1905.337 |
| 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: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 23-35 mm from left, height 4 mm; butterfly of 1886/1887 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W203 Booth at a Fair' in graphite a lower left on ther verso by C.L. Freer; '202' (upside down) ingraphite on the tab verso; I/I/-(lower case letter Is, in script) at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2490102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.