429The Clock Tower - AmboiseFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.12 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York; bought through Fine Art Society, London (receipt, 24 May 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 180 x 126 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 177 x 126 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: | top of Hunting horn in shield |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | residual tone near the upper and lower plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | a few scattered flecks; two short, wavy horizontal lines at lower right have the appearance of drypoint by are more likely scratches |
| Print note: | There are faint remnants of earlier work at centre |
| 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: | '6' sideways on (or '9'), at lower left on the verso (possibly by Whistler) |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 25-34 mm from left, height 3 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'a' or 'ov'? illegible and underlined on verso; inscribed 'Clock Tower / Amboise- / W343' at lower left on the recto by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3940103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.