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Greenwich Park

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.260
State: 2/3

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:210 x 305 mm  
Plate mark size:127 x 203 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'modern' laid (post 1880); much debris - uneven distribution, horizontal chain lines.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:unclear  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Printed with plate tone on grass in foreground and at upper corner; tone is heaviest near bottom edge of plate and at lower right.  
Note on foul biting:Scattered flecks and heavier patches at upper left, lower left and lower right corners.  
Print note:Heavily inked lines of blades of grass in foreground have appearance of drypoint.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
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):no  
Notes on inscriptions:M. Smith records previously existing inscription "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1923.12.29.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W33 1st [underscored] State. Before the sky' by C. L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0350103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.