172London BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.359 State: 3/6 |
Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 211 x 332 mm |
Plate mark size: | 157 x 232 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | off-white |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | IV ? Countermark |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | light, irregular tone on the water and near the plate edges |
Note on foul biting: | tiny pits and scratches on the sky and water |
Print note: | A new state (formerly catalogued as third state) |
Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
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: | 'W123 second state with the monogram' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K1530302 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.