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Free Trade Wharf

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8496
State: 8/8

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 49437). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10559  

 

Paper size:202 x 276 mm  
Plate mark size:98 x 187 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese tissue  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone, more in the sky; texturing untidy on the water  
Note on foul biting:a few dots  
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:'LJR' stamp on verso (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b-c)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 49437' on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'103' on verso, '10' on recto; '6. (ot.29) x' on recto, possibly by Whistler  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1630303  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.