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The Unsafe Tenement

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Accession no: 124.2007
State: 3/4

Collection credit:The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art  
Image credit:Photo © Colby College Museum of Art  
Provenance:Fine Art Society, London; Peter and Paula Lunder; given by Peter and Paula Lunder to Colby College, 2007.  

 

Paper size:304 x 437 mm  
Plate mark size:157 x 227 mm  
Other size:157 x 227 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:dark cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):chine  
Note on the paper:mounted on thick white wove  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean wiped, tone from chine  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:Whistler  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. 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:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'WHISTLER ? Unsafe …' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0170326  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.