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Street at Saverne

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.21.73
State: 4/4

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:F. Keppel, New York (stock no. a 82525). Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:267 x 232 mm  
Plate mark size:207 x 159 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:pale buff colour, heavy weight, with a semi-ridged effect; there are lots of lines right across but not the ladder effect  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:deep, even tone overall, with the street light scraped clean, and the area lit by the light on the left, wiped a little clean.  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:The sky looks rather uneven, but a very dramatic effect is produced by the deep inking.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.' (very faint)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:  
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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 82525' on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0190506  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.