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San Biagio

Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh
Accession no: ENGLISH 883
State: 8/17

Collection credit:Scottish National Gallery  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Purchased from the Estate of Sir Donald Pollok by the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1964.  
Additional acq. no:P.2650  

 

Paper size:229 x 325 mm  
Plate mark size:207 x 298 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:pale buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper: fine light-weight laid paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light even buff tone overall  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:bare and thin in the arch, note the faint area of fine lines in the houses seen in perspective through the arch, the faint figure on the shore in the left foreground, and the faint outline of the woman behind the boatmen - only one- in the centre (she is very faint indeed)  

 

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:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1970503  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.