207Salute DawnScottish National Gallery , EdinburghAccession no: ENGLISH 905 State: 4/4 |
Collection credit: | Scottish National Gallery |
Image credit: | |
Provenance: | Printed by F. Salmon, Paris, for Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau, 1886. Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883-1968); bought from Mrs E. S. Lumsden by the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1949. |
Additional acq. no: | P.1741 |
Paper size: | 144 x 220 mm |
Plate mark size: | 125 x 201 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | cream |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japan |
Note on the paper: | laid down on card |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | black |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | pale buff tone, cleaned off round the bevelled edge |
Note on foul biting: | |
Print note: | quiet, quite pale impression; very fine drypoint lines under the two masted ship at left as reflection. |
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: | 'A few impressions were printed in Paris on a paper chosen by A.W. Thibadeau which W[histler] liked. There had been some talk of the plates being printed in Paris but before the end of the negotiations with Dowdeswell Whistler decided to pri t himself ESD' (Lumsden) |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
ID: | K2150z01 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.