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Westminster Bridge in Progress

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:257/262 x 403 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 350 mm  
Note on size:slightly irregular  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:dark cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone  
Note on foul biting:particularly at the lower edge  
Print note:drypoint= work at lower left: leaning figure, rail behind him and bollard in front of him; head and shoulders at lower right; small segment of view through construction to right of figure; prow of boat and figures above it to left of centre under construction; fine curving diagonals on sky at right  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler / 1861'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler -' butterfly in pencil on recto  
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:1874/1876 butterfly  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Westminster Bridge - Wedmore 70 -' on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0720101  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.