102Chelsea Bridge and ChurchFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1894.39 State: 7/7 |  |
| 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, (receipt 21 August 1894), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, September 1894; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 125 x 189 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 102 x 167 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800), even distribution, much debris, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with considerable, selectively wiped plate tone, the sky above landscape and bridge and water at right more clean-wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | many small flecks near top of plate |
| Print note: |
| 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: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith notes previous existence of inscription in C.L. Freer's hand, 'darkly printed --- last state' in graphite on old mount (now lost). |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 19982' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W85' by C.L. Freer on verso; 'Eo' (the 'E' in reverse) on verso; tiny green dot near lower left corner on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0950603 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.