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The Little Nurse, Grays Inn

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8600
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York. Knoedler & Co., New York. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10664  

 

Paper size:135 x 94 mm  
Plate mark size:132 x 94 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  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks in the image area; a long, curving, left-right diagonal scratch extends from the left of the butterfly through the rightmost child  
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:butterfly at lower right on the verso  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'The Little Nurse, / Grays Inn' butterfly at lower right on the verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 18 to 28 mm from left  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'HHB' stamp (H.H. Benedict, Lugt 2936); 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'MK.31685' at lower left on verso; Colnaghi stock numbers erased and covered by the NGA stamp  
Misc inscriptions by others:Wedmore number at lower left on the verso; Kennedy number at lower right on the verso by Harold Wright  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K3020105  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.