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Longshore men

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Accession no: 458-1882

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin  
Provenance:Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1882 as part of a group of 301 prints for £685.7.3.  

 

Paper size:201 x 261 mm  
Plate mark size:153 x 225 mm  
Note on size:paper trimmed at bottom edge, part of the inscription cut off  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:fibrous, some short brown fibres  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light residual tone, slightly darker at right edge and in top right and lower left corners.  
Note on foul biting:Some scattered pitting along right margin.  
Print note:Plenty of white lines lower left, possibly due to overcleaning of the plate.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler - 1859.'  
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:  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Long Shore Men' and '24'? (lower part of no. cut off) recto bottom right  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0450132  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.