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The Music Room

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Accession no: 30446
State: 1/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Kunsthalle, Hamburg.  
Additional acq. no:1653 (old inv. no.)  

 

Paper size:178 x 251 mm  
Plate mark size:148 x 215 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:Hard paper, with visible blue and brown fibres, trimmed.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Virtually none except the corners.  
Note on foul biting:Fingerprints in top left corner and along right edge; pitting and foul biting along left and right margins.  
Print note:This impression offers an interesting variety of foul biting, fingerprints, pitting, ink residue and fabric texture (left below shelf with candlestick).  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
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:verso centre: brown seal of Hamburg with text 'KUNSTHALLE ZU HAMBURG' (Lugt 1233)  
Dealers' stock nos:'8541/w' verso lower left  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Reading Family W27-I' verso lower centre; '30446' in centre; cut off inscriptions on verso lower right  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0330112  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.