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The Lime-Burner

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.277
State: 1/2

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:357 x 225 mm  
Plate mark size:251 x 176 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'modern' laid (post 1800); much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Some plate tone on beams and walls of doorway.  
Note on foul biting:Considerable throughout including granular effect (heavy in places) on walls of doorway.  
Print note:Presence of drypoint signature as well as etched signature and date implies an earlier state than Kennedy's I/II  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler' in drypoint lower left; 'Whistler.' in etching lower right  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1859.'  
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:0  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:M. Smith records previously existing inscriptions 'S.H.' and 'S.Haden' in graphite on print's margin. They were erased 1924.3.31.  
Collector's mark:'S.Haden' in graphite pencil on recto (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W44' on verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0460103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.