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En Plein Soleil

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 2/3

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © New York Public Library  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:162 x 196 mm  
Plate mark size:99 x 133 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:dark ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:partial, scrolls and possibly a coat of arms  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light residual tone  
Note on foul biting:At the bottom left corner, an area is foul bitten, forming a dark foreground. There are scrim marks at the lower left corner, and a large area bounded by a firm line where acid resistant varnished was used.  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'; and a faint 'Whistler' with 's' reversed in upper left corner  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler -'  
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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Before Delatre - with name at top' under platemark on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0150101  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.