188Old Battersea BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.369 State: 5/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., (Wunderlcih receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 224 x 318 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 201 x 295 mm |
| Note on size: | with small margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | IV countermark |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale,even tone, darker at the plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | there is foul biting near the butterfly signature, with fainter flecks on the water and sky |
| Print note: | The ink is a warm black. |
| 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: | 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: | 'W141' at lower left on the verso and 'W141 - With clouds and large butterfly.' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1770404 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.