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Cottage Door

British Museum
Accession no: 1907-4-8-4
State: 2/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Trustees of the British Museum  
Provenance:Acquired by the British Museum, London, 1920.  
Additional acq. no:PRN: PPA52154  

 

Paper size:66 x 98 mm  
Plate mark size:66 x 98 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:?  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light plate tone; somewhat darker in lower left; wiped across in a wide curve  
Note on foul biting:line of regular foul biting marks cutting off bottom right corner (from clamps?)  
Print note:  

 

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:not on recto  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:not on recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:14 mm from left, 4 x 11 mm; butterfly of 1886/1887  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K2500204  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.