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The Piano

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1938.1913
State: 1/7

Collection credit:The Clarence Buckingham Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Clarence L. Buckingham (1854-1913), Chicago; bequeathed to his sisters; passed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1938.  
Additional acq. no:R 5750  

 

Paper size:320 x 202 mm  
Plate mark size:234 x 158 mm  
Note on size:.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'IV' countermark  
Medium:drypoint and open bite  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Very rich burr or retroussage; very faint open bite above and behind the figure in areas where the drypoint shading is added in subsequent states.  

 

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:butterfly in ink, lower right, in margin  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'I' to right of butterfly signature (possibly the numeral 1)  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The pen butterfly dates from about 1874/1876.  
Collector's mark:'C.B.' (C. L. Buckingham, Lugt 497)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1410102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.