266The Village Sweet ShopNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8570 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| Provenance: | Colnaghi's, London, 1927. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
| Additional acq. no: | B-10634 |
| Paper size: | 87 x 122 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 81 x 122 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | some light tone along the left edge, at centre and at bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | granular foul biting at centre (partly burnished out on shutter); fingerprints bitten into plate a lower right |
| Print note: |
| 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 30 to 43 mm from left; butterfly of 1887 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | If c.15945 is a Colnaghi stock no., it should be from 1927 |
| Collector's mark: | 'LJR' stamp (Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'c.15945' on verso by Harold Wright of Colnaghi's |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | Kennedy number on verso by Harold Wright |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2510106 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.