229The RivaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.388 State: 4/4 |  |
| 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: | 208 x 297 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 201 x 295 mm |
| Note on size: | there are thread to narrow margins; the impression is not trimmed all the way to the plate mark |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale, even tone, slightly darker near the plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | foul biting on and below the wall at upper left; many scratches on the pavement, most diagonal; traces of scraping marks at the lower centre |
| Print note: | This impression conforms to Kennedy state IIIa and is actually a fourth state. See State description. |
| 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 46-69 mm from left, height 7 mm; ; butterfly of 1880/1881 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | The brown ink '6.0.0.' is similar to inscriptions on FGA 1902.131, The Little Mast, and FGA 1898.383, Palaces, so the paper was probably removed from the same volume |
| Collector's mark: | 'SH' in graphite pencil at lower right on the verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '6.0.0.' in brown ink at lower left on the verso; '2' and 'W.157' at lower left on the verso; 'W157 The Riva No 1 Trial proof' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1920305 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.