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Temple Bar

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1903.265
State: 3/4

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. (Obach receipts, 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:332 x 200 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:illegible countermark?  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Pale traces of tone at the plate edges  
Note on foul biting:Scattered foul biting over the roof areas at left and right  
Print note:This is interesting further use of a sketch plate, without strict faithfulness to the original drypoint line work; the scale and perspective are both somewhat altered.  

 

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  
Misc inscriptions by others:'No 46' at lower centre on the verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1620302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.