187The Little PutneyFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.199 State: 1/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 202 x 320 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 124 x 201 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with the former fore-edge coloured black |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Pro Patria |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Pale, even tone; with a somewhat inky plate mark |
| Note on foul biting: | Patches on the sky at left and at the lower left corner; traces of acid droplets to the right of the reflections below the house at right. |
| Print note: | Note that the outline of clouds in the sky is not visible in Kennedy's illustration of the first state. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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: | 'IV' encircled, at upper left on the recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1800102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.