451The Embroidered CurtainNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8646 State: 10/10 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| Provenance: | H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 66612). Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1910). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
| Additional acq. no: | B-10710 |
| Paper size: | |
| Plate mark size: | 237 x 158 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | light weight |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone at the plate edges and on the houses at top and water at bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks; patches along the plate edges; fine granular foul biting and some regular foul biting at right centre |
| Print note: | The NGA catalogued this as the fifth state (and it was formerly in the WEP database as fifth), but it is Kennedy's seventh state, with additional work on the water, etc. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'WATER / te / VUUR' on signboard |
| 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: | 'for Wunderlich' (an umlaut over the u) at lower right on the verso |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 29 to 40 mm from left; height 3 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 66612' (erased) at lower right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '28' and '410' at lower right on the verso; '161' (in a circle, erased) at lower centre on the verso, '10' at lower left on the verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K4100504 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.