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Penny Passengers, Limehouse

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 1/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:112 x 254 mm  
Plate mark size:82 x 208 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:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light residual tone, looks rather grey  
Note on foul biting:a few dots, particularly at the edge  
Print note:This is the impression of the first state illustrated by Kennedy  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler' and butterfly in pencil on recto  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'Thames - Limehouse' on recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:1874/1876  
Collector's mark:'S. P. AVERY / COLLECTION' (Lugt 41) stamp  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0670101  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.