141The Little Forge, LiverpoolFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.169 State: 14/16 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson, London (ca 1829 - d. 1891). C.W. Dowdeswell. Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 325 x 196 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 225 x 150 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with an old [Dutch?] inscription in brown ink on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | [B?] D countermark |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With heavy plate tone on the ceiling and walls in the background; with light tone on the floor in the middle- and foreground. |
| Note on foul biting: | pits and scratches on the lower part of the plate include prominent, curving scratches to the right of the butterfly signature, dark scratches near the lower left corner and a horizontal scratch to the right of the anvil |
| Print note: | This is the third in the sequence of 'states' of K147 in the FGA; it appears to be after Kennedy's sixth state (which is how it was previously catalogued) |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'FROM C. W. DOWDESWELL 75 Chancery Lane' in black ink (C.W. Dowdeswell, Lugt 690); 'F' Freer's seal with faint trace of red pigment, recto (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '...Lori vocontii meminit Lepsed: ad Loc. ...w farn 34.' two partial lines of old Latin inscription in brown ink, verso; '....L . O [unclear] D' unidentified writing, partly erased and cut off, bottom right corner, recto (probably same inscription as on F1906.236, K. 147. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1470602 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.