188Old Battersea BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.370 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. (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: | 205 x 295 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 201 x 295 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | Hunting horn in shield, with 4 over upside-down V below (probably Hunting Horn in shield, Vander Ley Chicago watermark 186) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with graduated plate tone, wiped cleanest under the central span of the bridge, with the darkest tone at the upper right and on the water. |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks |
| Print note: |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp-' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 43-54 mm from left, height 4 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W 141 1st State or trial before the clouds and with small butterfly' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1770503 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.