315Little Chelsea (Memorial)Freer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.22 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 320), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £1.6.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, September 1892 (Keppel receipt; called 'Little Chelsea'); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 50 x 83 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 50 x 83 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: | partial PRO PATRIA (?) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Graduated tone, selectively wiped; darker at lower left and across the lower part of the image |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks; without the short slipped stroke at right, between the embankment and pilings, visible in Kennedy's illustration |
| Print note: | A lovely delicate impression with subtle wiping. There is faint drypoint shading on the butterfly signature which does not appear to be present in the Kennedy illustration |
| 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 21-32 mm from left, height 4 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | sytlized device at lower right verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark, see Lugt 799); 'JHH' blindstamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt), on the mount rather than the etched sheet. |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '9504' at upper right on verso; 'a-7385' at lower left on verso of the old mount |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Hx' (or H, backwards c, c) at lower right on verso of old mount. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3310102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.