48LimehouseFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1888.33 State: 6/6 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 205 x 320 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 125 x 202 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid (pre 1800); much debris - even distribution, page removed from a book, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'GR', crown and wreath in a circle |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Some light plate tone along left and right plate edges and at lower corners. |
| Note on foul biting: | Considerable throughout; particularly heavy at lower right and on prow of boat with signature and date. |
| Print note: |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler 1859' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1859' and '...UR MAC (?)' above bow window at top right; 'CURTIS GIN' ('N' reversed) on signboard in background.on the signboard in the background. |
| 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: | Freer wrote, erased, just below plate, recto: W 39. Freer wrote, erased, on bottom edge, recto: W 37. Unidentified writing in pencil, erased, on bottom edge, recto: 81046 Unidentified writing in pencil, verso: P ocv [Pocr?] M. Smith wrote in pencil, verso: 88.33 K.40 (ms) |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0400303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.