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Sketching, No. 2

Private collection
Accession no: -
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Private collection  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow, bought in 1903 by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. 37403) for $48. Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York, 1910; sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT, 1919; Whittemore sale, 1949. Sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York; bought by the present owner.  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean wiped, no tone  
Note on foul biting:some texture on the right  
Print note:A good impression  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Owner's records  
ID:K0870102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.