95Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier)Freer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1894.18 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, June 1894; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 207 x 263 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 113 x 152 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | even distribution, much debris |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | greyish black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | clean wiped, but with soft flecks mfm; faint plate tone along right plate edge mh |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks throughout image with more concentrated patch on and around beached boat in foreground |
| Print note: | rather a bleak impression; greyish tone appears to be ink colour rather than inking or depth of lines |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler ' ['t' not crossed] |
| 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: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith notes traces of an erased graphite inscription on print's margin 'Cadogan Pier 10950 co' in an unidentified hand. |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 12947' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W79' on verso written by C.L. Freer; 'No (the 'o' underscored) 79 Cadogan Pier' half-erased and '15' on verso in different hands; 'OcV' (the 'V' underscored) or 'OcN' (the 'N' underscored) or similar on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0750105 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.