55The Lime-BurnerFogg Art Museum, HarvardAccession no: R218NA State: 1/2 |
| Collection credit: | Fogg Art Museum, John Witt Randall Fund |
| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Acquired by the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. |
| Paper size: | 323 x 249 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 248 x 178 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | taken from an old book, marks of sewing and binding down the left side. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | clean wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | in foreground |
| Print note: | The lines in the foreground doorway are strong; plate slipped a hair while printing? Dpb |
| 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: | butterfly below platemark |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'Fine proof -' [butterfly] on verso |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | The butterfly in pencil may date from about 1888/1890- but it is very small and rather far from the print, which is unusual. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0460120 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.