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Railway-Station, Voves

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1889.16
State: 1/2

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 1889) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:130 x 219 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:Eagle with Basel Crozier  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:pale overall tone  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks; a patch at lower left; before the scratches on FGA FSC-GR-697, Kennedy's second state  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
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:'Station. Voves.' at lower left on the verso and '3rd Proof - 1st State' (the rd and st superscript and underlined) at lower right on the verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 158-167 mm from left, height 2 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W319' at lower left on the verso and 'undescribed' at lower centre on the verso, by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K3710103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.