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Street at Saverne

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8405
State: 3/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 63645). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10467  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Asian laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Selectively wiped; with light tone over the sky, road and wall at right and the row of houses wiped cleaner.  
Note on foul biting:With new foul biting or etched texture on sky.  
Print note:Previously catalogued by the NGA as state three, but it is Kennedy's fourth state with the altered gate.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques.'  
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:no  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 63645' (underlined) at lower left on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'8' (circled) at lower centre on the verso; 'The rare 3rd state' and Kennedy number, state and title in the lower margin on the recto by Harold Wright  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0190304  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.