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The Pantheon from the Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1902.118
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Sold by Whistler through the Company of the Butterfly to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:85 x 200 mm  
Plate mark size:82 x 200 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:  
Note on foul biting:Scattered flecks; patches near the lower platemark  
Print note:Extraneous (?) vertical lines at left do not appear related to the subject  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly at lower left, faint butterfly at upper right near edge  
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:'Early proof.' at lower right on the verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 51-59 mm from left, height 3 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The pencil butterfly signature is messy  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Luxembourg / Gardens' (Gardens underlined) at lower right on the verso; inscribed 'W314' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K4290103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.