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From Billingsgate

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1934.567
State: 7/8

Collection credit:Bryan Lathrop Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 28774). Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), Chicago; passed to his wife; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1934.  
Additional acq. no:R 533  

 

Paper size:170 x 249 mm  
Plate mark size:159 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:letters  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Drypoint is worn or the lines thinly inked; scraper/burnisher marks are visible between and above the rightmost lines on the ship at left.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:butterfly and 'imp' in graphite, lower left, in margin  
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:signed with butterfly and 'imp' in graphite, lower left, in margin; butterfly slightly clunky and no '.' after imp, a late Whistler signature? Ok?  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 28774' at lower left verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W.130' just below platemark at lower left recto; 'L (underlined) / H' at lower left verso; Wedmore and Kennedy nos at lower left verso; 'cat 56' at lower left verso; title at lower centre verso; 'ix-' at lower right verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1680602  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.