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171

Free Trade Wharf

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 2/8

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:174 x 222 mm  
Plate mark size:99 x 184 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:same sheet as K1630301  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:top of 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW'  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light even overall tone  
Note on foul biting:a few dots  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'[…]ACKS' (back to front, on warehouse roof)  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'first state' at bottom left, possibly by Whistler, on recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'S. P. AVERY / COLLECTION' (Lugt 41) stamp on recto  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'134 -' on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1630201  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.