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Rotherhithe

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: G5716

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund  
Image credit:  
Provenance:E. H. Gray or Greenleaf. Acquired by the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.  

 

Paper size:296 x 220 mm  
Plate mark size:276 x 199 mm  
Note on size:There is a margin round the image.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):modern laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:DE ERVEN Dk BLAUW  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Pretty cleanly wiped, some upper left corner, lower right corner  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:A good impression with some burr; the drypoint on the small boat in the mid-foreground is still soft; pretty snappy, well inked  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1860.'  
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:'E.H.G' in pencil, practically illegible, on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'E.H.G.' [Greenleaf according to Fogg staff]  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0660311  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.