55The Lime-BurnerFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.277 State: 1/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 357 x 225 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 251 x 176 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Some plate tone on beams and walls of doorway. |
| Note on foul biting: | Considerable throughout including granular effect (heavy in places) on walls of doorway. |
| Print note: | Presence of drypoint signature as well as etched signature and date implies an earlier state than Kennedy's I/II |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' in drypoint lower left; 'Whistler.' in etching lower right |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1859.' |
| 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: | 0 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records previously existing inscriptions 'S.H.' and 'S.Haden' in graphite on print's margin. They were erased 1924.3.31. |
| Collector's mark: | 'S.Haden' in graphite pencil on recto (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W44' on verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0460103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.