200Nocturne: PalacesBoston Museum of Fine ArtsAccession no: 27.1404 State: 11/12 |
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| Provenance: | Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), sold for £12.12.0 to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 2 May 1888 (stock no. a17889), sold to A. J. Forbes Leith, 1889, returned in exchange to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 5 April 1890, sold in 1891 to unidentified collector. Horatio Greenough Curtis (d. ca 1923), Boston; Mrs Horatio Greenough Curtis; bequeathed to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June/July 1927, received September 1940. |
| Additional acq. no: | M 35571 |
| Paper size: | 301 x 200 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 294 x 200 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | modern laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | none visible |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | heavy tone upper and lower parts, wiping marks very clear |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Not so vivid in line as Boston's K2020605, but superb inking |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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 43-57 mm from left; pencil butterfly of 1886 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | MFA (Lugt 282) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 17889' |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K2020804 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.