191Doorway and VineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonAccession no: ? State: 10/18 |
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| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold per G. Lauser to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, May 1888, as part of an album of the Second Venice Set for £52.10.0 (stock no. 14359); bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston, 1890; bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1924. |
| Paper size: | 240 x 169 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 232 x 169 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | cream darkened to buff |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light, delicately wiped graduated tone, darker at the bottom. |
| Note on foul biting: | some dots, foul biting at top right |
| 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: | pencil butterfly of 1886, tab 39-54 mm from left |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'AWT' in graphite pencil on verso of tab (A.W. Thibadeau, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '13' centre verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1960505 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.