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Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 1

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession no: P.85-1959
State: 2/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK  
Provenance:Bequeathed by Guy John Fenton Knowles (1879-1959) to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, April 1959.  

 

Paper size:160 x 241 mm  
Plate mark size:160 x 241 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):  
Note on the paper:'antique'  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:Crown over 'GR' (Stratis 86)  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light, a little more at right.  
Note on foul biting:flecked.  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:signboard above packing station: 'PHILP & Co. / PACKER'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:butterfly 'imp'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:Butterfly 'imp'  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:47-57mm from right, tiny butterfly of 1887/1890s  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K2870207  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.