18The Unsafe TenementVictoria and Albert MuseumAccession no: 19807 State: 3/4 |
Collection credit: | Gift of Francis Seymour Haden. |
Image credit: | Photo ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Provenance: | Presented with the 12 etchings of the 'French Set' (14 including the two title pages) by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London, to South Kensington Museum, 1 January 1861. |
Additional acq. no: | EE.1A |
Paper size: | n/a mm |
Plate mark size: | 158 x 227 mm |
Other size: | chine collé 157 x 226 mm |
Note on size: | mount stuck down so unable to determine paper size |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
Note on the paper: | mount stuck down so unable to examine paper properly |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | n/a |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | fairly even, very light tone, slightly more pronounced in sky (left) and foreground |
Note on foul biting: | Circular mark in lower right corner where a tool gripped the plate; foul biting particularly at the edges and corners; pitting throughout; granular etched tone on the right side, foreground, around the feet of the child etc. |
Print note: | large areas of burnishing out in the sky; remains of a figure burnished out, to right of the dog; the shadows appearing a little worn. |
Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' ('s' reversed) |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
Inscriptions by others on the plate: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques. 171.' |
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: | crowned 'NAL' stamp in black ink in bottom right corner within platemark on recto (V&A, Lugt 1957) |
Dealers' stock nos: | n/a |
Misc inscriptions by others: | '19807'in brown ink within platemark, lower right corner, recto. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
ID: | K0170315 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.