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The Lime-Burner

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1917.531
State: 2/2

Collection credit:Bryan Lathrop Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1917.  

 

Paper size:277 x 202 mm  
Plate mark size:252 x 176 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:De Erven Dk. Blauw  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean-wiped.  
Note on foul biting:Foul biting has been burnished out near the lower plate edge; foul biting on the wood on the wall at right has a regular (intentional?) quality in places.  
Print note:Probably a 'later' impression: the faint trace of 'Whistler' signature at lower left and curving diagonal line on white wall between ladders are barely visible in this impression.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler -' [faint]  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1859 -'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:butterfly below platemark  
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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0460202  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.