175Temple BarFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.3 State: 1/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London, by 1910. Bought from Obach & Co. receipt 10 January 1905 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 351 x 244 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 214 x 138 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | beehive DEDB |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale, irregular traces of tone |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | If this is the impression (ex coll Menpes?) of the first state illustrated in Kennedy, the faint horizontals under the peak of the roof at left do not show in the reproduction; however, if another impression was used for the illustration, this is a new state with those lines |
| 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: | 'NO 5405' at lower left on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W133' at lower centre on the recto and 'W133 Temple Bar' at lower centre on the verso, both by C.L. Freer; 'No 45' at lower centre on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1620102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.