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Free Trade Wharf

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Accession no: 1954/1.364
State: 7/8

Collection credit:Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker  
Image credit:Photo © The University of Michigan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), Detroit, MI; bequeathed to the University of Michigan Art Museum, MI, 1954.  

 

Paper size:205 x 299 mm  
Plate mark size:98 x 188 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:B / TH in elaborated circle (Chicago watermark 62)  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:light, granular foul biting over the water, except in the centre, where a boat was scraped and burnished out  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
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: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:'C.20658'  
Misc inscriptions by others:Kennedy number, state and title at lower right by Harold Wright  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1630302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.