221The Two DoorwaysFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1891.1 State: 5/13 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 15 January 1891), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1891; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 211 x 293 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 202 x 293 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The paper colour is pinkish, almost buff |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with pale tone at the upper left, slightly heavier at upper right and more pronounced on the water at bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | granular patches on the walls, sky and water; larger acid droplets among the lines below both doorways |
| Print note: | The ink looks warm black on this paper. |
| 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: | butterfly to right of inscription on the verso |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'Very Early State -' butterfly at lower right on the verso |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 50- 71 mm from left; butterfly of 1881 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | There appears to be a partial, impressed butterfly signature on the tab, perhaps transferred when a sheet on top of it was signed ( there are no signs of erasure); the full butterfly signatures are medium-large, shaded on the tab and tiny, late on the verso |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 19273' at lower left on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W158' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'Mm' in script ( the 'm' superscript) at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1930303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.