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The Little Rotherhithe

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.56
State: 3/4

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:162 x 133 mm  
Plate mark size:126 x 102 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:heavy weight paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:at edges  
Note on foul biting:near and at edges  
Print note:a good impression  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1861.'  
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:'I / n' or 'I' over an inverted semicircle in pencil on verso (not identified)  
Dealers' stock nos:'A 32535' on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'No 71. The Little Wapping' on recto; 'yc xv' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0730201  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.