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The Embroidered Curtain

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8646
State: 10/10

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 66612). Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1910). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10710  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:237 x 158 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:light weight  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of tone at the plate edges and on the houses at top and water at bottom  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks; patches along the plate edges; fine granular foul biting and some regular foul biting at right centre  
Print note:The NGA catalogued this as the fifth state (and it was formerly in the WEP database as fifth), but it is Kennedy's seventh state, with additional work on the water, etc.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'WATER / te / VUUR' on signboard  
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:'for Wunderlich' (an umlaut over the u) at lower right on the verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 29 to 40 mm from left; height 3 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 66612' (erased) at lower right on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'28' and '410' at lower right on the verso; '161' (in a circle, erased) at lower centre on the verso, '10' at lower left on the verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K4100504  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.