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The Lime-Burner

Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession no: 24767.9
State: 2/2

Collection credit:/  
Image credit:Photo ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London  
Provenance:No. 9 'The Lime Burners' in 'A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames' bought from Ellis & Green, London, by South Kensington Museum, 26 May 1871 for £12.12.0 for the set.  
Additional acq. no:EE.1B  

 

Paper size:278 x 204 mm  
Plate mark size:253 x 178 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:elaborate watermark, probably Beehive DEDB  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Virtually none  
Note on foul biting:Fine pitting along edges left and right, supporting a frame effect; very light foul biting in white area above short ladder  
Print note:  

 

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:'VAML', crowned, in circle, blindstamp below platemark centre on recto  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0460224  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.