UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Home > The Catalogue > Impression

Return to previous page

124

The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Accession no: 2013.459
State: 1/7

Collection credit:The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art  
Image credit:Photo © Colby College Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Albert W. Scholle (d. 1910), New York. Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT. William Sloane Kinney (1883 - 1952). Susan Schulman, New York; bought by Peter Lunder, 26 August 2002; given by Peter and Paula Lunder to Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2007.  
Additional acq. no:032.2002  

 

Paper size:324 x 202 mm  
Plate mark size:275 x 174 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:IV  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:clean wiped  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:fine impression with burr  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
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:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:pencil butterfly of 1879/1881  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); pentagon stamp (A.B. Scholle, L. 2923a); 'HW' (Whittemore, L. 1384a)  
Dealers' stock nos:'C.9.F.O' on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:red chalk '367' on recto; red chalk verso '£5.5.0'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1400102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.