15Sketch of HousesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1902.279 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London. Owner not named by Kennedy, 1910. Bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 220 x 278 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 158 x 225 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid paper |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | illegible fragment |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Pale, even, overall tone; with an inky plate mark. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | This is the impression illustrated in Kennedy; it is a slipped impression, affecting the lines from the centre to the right, which appear doubled. |
| 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: | 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: | '8429' a lower right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Not described' and 'Probably unique.-----F.W.' (probably Frederick Wedmore) at lower right on the recto; 'V.' in red pencil at lower right on the recto; 'pc/-' at lower right on the verso; '6/-/-' at the lower right on the recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1610102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.