47Old Westminster BridgeNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8423 State: 3/4 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Provenance: | S. H. Nazeby Harrington (b. 1862), Birkenhead, UK. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
Additional acq. no: | B-10485 |
Paper size: | 102 x 229 mm |
Plate mark size: | 76 x 203 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | Beehive in escutcheon with flowers |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | beehive in [?] flowers |
Medium: | etching |
Ink colour: | black |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | |
Note on foul biting: | light and scattered, including small rust or corrosion marks to left of the horses, above the lower centre plate mark and at the lower right corner. |
Print note: |
Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler 1859' ('t' not crossed) |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | see signature |
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: | |
Collector's mark: | 'HNH' stamp (S. H. Nazeby Harrington, Lugt 1337, 1348 or 1349), 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b-c) |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K0390220 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.