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The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1903.92
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Obach & Co. (receipt, 2 September 1903), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:127 x 175 mm  
Plate mark size:127 x 175 mm  
Note on size:trimmed to the platemark but no tab  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:partial PRO PATRIA  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:The plate is covered with light, dense, granular foul biting  
Print note:Not the impression illustrated by Kennedy; this is basically a spoiled plate.  

 

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:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

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:'G352' at lower left on the verso and 'The Terrace, Luxembourgh [sic] Gardens.' at lower centre on the verso, both by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K4260103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.