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Rotherhithe

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: 2005.282

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Knoedler & Co., New York. Given by Patricia Cornwell to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2005.  

 

Paper size:338 x 235 mm  
Plate mark size:275 x 200 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese  
Note on the paper:Broad margin.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean wiped  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:A good impression with some burr, a little pale in the sky and on the prow of the mid-foreground boat (between the men); rich  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1860.'  
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:'RBF' and 'E C …' [illegible, the E written in two curving c shapes] in pencil on recto  
Dealers' stock nos:'mk 31661', 'P 29058', '8552' (up the right side) recto; '181J7' at the top  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0660337  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.