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Street at Saverne

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.225
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:269 x 196 mm  
Plate mark size:208 x 157 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid; much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Seated woman holding scepter, spear, shield with cross with waves below her feet in crowned oval [mh note:Britannia?]  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:considerable plate tone on sky, pavement, wall at far right and over dark shading on houses; rays from lantern and walls of houses clean-wiped  
Note on foul biting:near sides and bottom of plate  
Print note:aquatint, sandpaper ground, or open bite used with horizontal shading in sky to produce more regular dark tone.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques.'  
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 "2d" in red pencil on etching's margin. They were erased 1923.12.29.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W11' on verso by C. L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0190403  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.