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Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea

Library of Congress
Accession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 272
State: 3/4

Collection credit:Pennell Fund, 1949  
Image credit:Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division  
Provenance:Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York; sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT, 1919. Bought by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Pennell Fund.  

 

Paper size:151 x 226 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 226 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 and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:pale, relatively even  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:warm black ink; evidence of burnishing at left of cloth over window at left, and above ant to right of tilt-top table at right; this is the impression of the first state illustrated by Kennedy  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:Butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:in mirrored script above tab: '26 M[illegible] Str[eet?] lib / Co [illegible]'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'No 1' at lower right verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:at 172 to 182 mm; h 2 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'HW' stamp (H.G. Whittemore, Lugt suppl. 1384a); 'HM' stamp (H. Mansfield, Lugt 1342) on verso.  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2720103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.