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Penny Passengers, Limehouse

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.52
State: 2/2

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:198 x 276 mm  
Plate mark size:82 x 209 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
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:very light tone  
Note on foul biting:dots  
Print note:possibly retroussage, or plate jumped, at left  

 

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:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'1. rt - 21 - x' on recto (the 'rt' superscript )  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'LSD' [?] [like D and $) purple stamp on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'POENITENTIA in Contractab. Bald.l.g'ius.C.de Trans'act:' old pen inscription (concerning a legal treatise) on verso; 'The Penny Boat'; 'Touched proof - shading' on recto 'Differs from 1st State in hair of old lady at right of parasol in foreground and in [?] on vertical line of building directly over her'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0670203  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.