201The Bridge, Santa MartaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.396 State: 9/9 |  |
| 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: | 294 x 200 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 294 x 200 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | partial elaborate shield (Strasbourg lily?) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale tone, slightly heavier over the sky and more so at the lower left corner |
| Note on foul biting: | many scattered flecks; with larger patches of foul biting at upper left and lower centre |
| Print note: | The fine drypoint lines and butterfly signature in the plate print slightly stronger than on FGA 1887.21; that, coupled with the absence of regular tone over the bridge, laundry hanging on it and figures standing on its span at right, is possible evidence that the regular tonal areas were caused by the paper or cloth used to wrap the plate between printings; this impression of Kennedy's state VIII is earlier than 1887.12 |
| 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 54-71 mm from left, height 8 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'SH' in graphite pencil on the verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W 171' written by Freer on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2040804 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.