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Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

Library of Congress
Accession no: PR 13 CN 1917:RO1, container 2, no. 1
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana; given to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.  
Additional acq. no:Whistleriana Container2, A size  

 

Paper size:142 x 255 mm  
Plate mark size:n/a mm  
Note on size:trimmed within platemark  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:MBM  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:with carefully wiped tone inside a clean-wiped border  
Note on foul biting:usual plus many scratches  
Print note:See note on FGA 1894.411; this LC impression may be more like it than other FGA impressions as there are many scratches at the top of the plate  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'J. W.'  
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:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'11234.' at lower right on the verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0010129  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.