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Children, Portsmouth

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.143
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:70 x 98 mm  
Plate mark size:67 x 98 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' (pre 1800); browned at edges  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:warm black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light residual tone  
Note on foul biting:  
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:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:21-30 from left, butterfly very smudged  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'38' on verso  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K3230107  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.