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Chelsea

Yale Center for British Art
Accession no: B2000.5.7

Collection credit:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale College 1960.  
Image credit:Photo © Yale Center for British Art  
Provenance:Given by Janet and James Sale to the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000.  

 

Paper size:243 x 325 mm  
Plate mark size:  
Other size:131 x 198 image mm  
Note on size:roughly torn and uneven at the bottom  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:darkened at the edges, card-like weight  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light even tone  
Note on foul biting:some dots  
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:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:Under the platemark are the printed inscriptions 'CHELSEA', 'VIRTUE' etc  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1820z30  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.