70RotherhitheBirmingham Museum and Art GalleryAccession no: P107'45 State: 6/6 |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Bequeathed by Ernest Henry Keen to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1945. |
| Paper size: | 401 x 266 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 275 x 201 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | medium weight, heavily sized, very little texture, fibres uniform - described in museum records as 'Imperial Japan' |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | There is print tone particularly at the lower and upper edges |
| Note on foul biting: | There are acid spots in the sky and left edge and some minor pitting at the lower edge. |
| Print note: |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Wedmore 60 / Kennedy 66 III / Rotherhithe' on recto, at lower left |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0660z14 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.