447Bridge, AmsterdamFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1906.119 State: 4/5 |
Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Provenance: | Bought on 15 May 1890 from James McNeill Whistlert by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 166 x 239 mm |
Plate mark size: | 164 x 239 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: | no |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | light tone over the water in the foreground, particularly at lower left and lower right |
Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks; patches along the side and bottom plate edges, more at lower centre |
Print note: | New state between Kennedy's 2nd and 3rd states |
Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
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: | 'Chs. L. Freer' at lower right on the verso |
Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
Note on the tab: | tab 53-62 mm from left, height 2 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: | 'W267' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K4090203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.