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Ratcliffe Highway

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:224 x 303 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 229 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japan  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:only at the bottom edge  
Print note:some burr, fully inked, good impression  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler' and butterfly at lower rigjht 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:pencil butterfly of 1875/1877  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:'74' at upper left recto; '117' at lower right rectopper; 'Ki80' at upper left recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0800101  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.