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Billingsgate

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession no: P.2081-R
State: 9/9

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK  
Provenance:Given by Sir Henry Francis Herbert Bart Thompson to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, December 1920.  

 

Paper size:188 x 264 mm  
Plate mark size:153 x 227 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese  
Note on the paper:darkened  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone.  
Note on foul biting:acid splatter etc.  
Print note:good clear impression, quite delicate on the figure.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whislter. 1859.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
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:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K0470817  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.