226The Fish Shop, VeniceMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAccession no: 17.3.403 State: 5/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 |
| Image credit: | Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829-1891); Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 283) bought by Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), London, £3.7.6. Listed by E. G. Kennedy (1910) as owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York. Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. |
| Paper size: | 137 x 220 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 128 x 220 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | Strasbourg lily |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | extensive pencil alterations on shop, street, arch and figures (brown wash in the window, blue/grey on figures in street), and pen at top and right |
| Print tone: | sloppy wet tone with vertical scrap marks, like watercolour in the bottom area of the canal |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Possibly vertical abrasions or ink not fully taking on paper at bottom right. The alterations give the figures greater solidity. There is both blue and brown shading on the elft of the arch; brown on the rafters within the window at left; so these additions were done at different times. The grey is more obvious, the brown blends in and shows the possible effect of planned chan ges. |
| 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 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' circular blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K2180402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.