51BillingsgateFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.278 State: 2/9 |  |
| 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: | 244 x 325 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 153 x 225 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan laid |
| Note on the paper: | Eastern paper: kozo; much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | minimal at lower left and along lower plate edge. |
| Print note: | Check to make certain small additions to figures and some lines in sky drypoint? Lines defining left part of hull at lower left corner have been partially reduced and have appearance of drypoint (they are clearly darker and etched in K's illustration of state 1) |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| 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: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records previously existing inscriptions 'S.H. 1st st.' in graphite on print's margin, 'S. Haden' in graphite on verso and 'W45 First state.' in graphite on verso in C.L. Freer's hand. All were erased 1925.6.16. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0470202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.