227Gondola under a BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.202 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 442 x 223 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 295 x 201 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | faint traces of irregular tone |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | This is almost pure etching; the only drypoint is between the arches of the arcade at left and, possibly, a few vertical lines in the water below the right side of the bridge and lines just below the gondola |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'T.Way' (underlined) in graphite pencil at lower right on the recto |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | long erased inscription in the lower margin. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2270202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.