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The Unsafe Tenement

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.218
State: 3/4

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:162 x 231 mm  
Plate mark size:158 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white on white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Chinese laid down on wove  
Note on the paper:chine colle; much debris - even distribution  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light overall tone  
Note on foul biting:scattered; remains heaviest on foreground shading and at near right plate edge; prominent vise mark at lower right corner  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler' ('s' reversed)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques. 171.'  
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):no  
Notes on inscriptions:M. Smith records previous existence of inscription "S.H." in graphite and "3rd" in red pencil on original mount.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W7 - 3rd [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0170303  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.