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Street at Saverne

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 60.598.31
State: 4/4

Collection credit:Julia S. Manges, in memory of her husband Dr. Morris Manges, 1960  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Purchased by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, in 1912 (stock no. a 50651), sold before 1915; bequeathed by Julia S. Manges (d. 1960), in memory of her husband Dr Morris Manges, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960.  

 

Paper size:272 x 210 mm  
Plate mark size:208 x 158 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese  
Note on the paper:like tissue paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:soft tone, wiped or scraped off the lantern.  
Note on foul biting:texturing at left and right, some regular dotting at right between the lines, and at the left.  
Print note:a good, heavily inked, impression  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.' (barely visible)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
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 50651' on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0190515  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.