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Venus

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: 2005.286
State: 2/2

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Given by Patricia Cornwell (b.1956) to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2005.  

 

Paper size:195 x 295 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese  
Note on the paper:rough edges at the bottom and right.; thin laid japan  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:quite cleanly wiped, slightest of brownish tone above model lower right corner  
Note on foul biting:at the bottom right corner  
Print note:A fine impression.  

 

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:'18066' at top right.  
Misc inscriptions by others:'if' written at the bottom  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0590212  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.