50Eagle WharfNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8425 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| Provenance: | Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
| Additional acq. no: | B-10487 |
| Paper size: | |
| Plate mark size: | |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial 'HUDELIST' |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light even tone over buildings, ships and water, the sky wiped slightly cleaner |
| Note on foul biting: | With the curving horizontal scratches on the water above the boy and corrosion (?) spots to the right of them (as found in Kennedy's illustration); with two long horizontal scratches and several slight right-left diagonal scratches, intersecting them in the sky (these do not appear in the Kennedy illustration) |
| Print note: |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler. 1859.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | on signboards: 'TYZAC, WHITELEY & Co.', 'W. BROWN / SAIL Maker / SHIPOWNER', 'EAGLE / WHARF' |
| 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: | no |
| Collector's mark: | 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'K41 (underlined) only' and '(EE1000) 'Tyzac Whitely' at lower right on the recto; '500-' (erased) at lower right on the recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0410125 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.