51BillingsgateFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1908.189 State: 4/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Purchased from Hermann Wunderlich (receipt dated 14 December 1908) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1908; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 181 x 245 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 153 x 222 mm |
| Note on size: | with small margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | cream discoloured to tan; Eastern paper, ganpi - much debris - even distribution, kozo, 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: | Significant foul biting (from what appear to be droplets of acid) across upper part of masts and a patch of more granular foul biting in clouds at upper right (displaying directional marks of manipulation of acid with feather?) |
| Print note: | The impression of the the fourth state illustrated in Kennedy. |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W45. D.K. 1908' on verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0470402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.