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The Fleet: Monitors

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1933.220
State: 1/2

Collection credit:Gift of Walter S. Brewster  
Image credit:The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago.  
Provenance:Purported to be from the set presented to Queen Victoria as a Jubilee gift, 1887. Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1933.  
Additional acq. no:R 5308  

 

Paper size:145 x 221 mm  
Plate mark size:141 x 221 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'Pro Patria'  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with plate tone, particularly on the lower portion of the plate  
Note on foul biting:  
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:butterfly and 'imp.' in pencil lower left  
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:small crown device in graphite at lower right recto (but different from the symbol usually found on impressions with the Royal Library, Windsor, stamp)  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K3180103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.