402Notre-Dame, BourgesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.24 State: 1/1 | ![]() |
Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. ( receipt, 7 September 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 222 x 130 mm |
Plate mark size: | 219 x 130 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian 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: | With tone near the eddges and upper corners |
Note on foul biting: | Scattered flecks; faint curved scratches on the paving in the foreground |
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 at lower right on the verso |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'First State - / Early Proof' at lower right on the verso. 'No 10' (the o superscript) at lower left on the verso. |
Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
Note on the tab: | tab 95-112 mm from left, height 3 mm; pencil butterfly of 1888 |
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: | 'Notre Dame, Bourges. G371' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K4020102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.