14Street at SaverneNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession 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.