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Price's Candle Factory

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.71
State: 9/13

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:S. G. Cercha (b. 1867), New York. Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:154 x 226 mm  
Plate mark size:148 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:dark ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Asian  
Note on the paper:'laid', no chain marks  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light tone  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

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:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:pencil butterfly of 1886 tab 72-86 from left  

 

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

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K1540302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.