20La Marchande de MoutardeNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8409 State: 1/5 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow, probably before 1902. Albert W. Scholle (d. 1910), New York. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
Additional acq. no: | B 10471 |
Paper size: | 222 x 178 mm |
Plate mark size: | 155 x 89 mm |
Note on size: | rough edges at left and bottom |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | cream |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | |
Medium: | etching |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | light overall tone |
Note on foul biting: | Textured down the left side, untidy texture at the bottom. |
Print note: |
Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
Inscriptions by others on the plate: | |
Whistler's signature on paper: | butterfly under platemark |
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: | stamps on verso: 'B.M.' (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); pentagon stamp (A.B. Scholle, Lugt 2923a); 'LJR' (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b-c) |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | 'without printer's name & address Not mentioned in callum [?] Catalogue' on recto; 'No 1' on recto; 'a w s' on verso; 'Sla' (?)' in pen in centre of verso |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K0220102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.