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141

The Little Forge, Liverpool

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1905.168
State: 10/16

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance: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:336 x 213 mm  
Plate mark size:226 x 150 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Arms of Amsterdam ?  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:With heavy tone over the ceiling and walls at right and the figures in the background at right.  
Note on foul biting:Some pits and scratches on the lower part of the plate.  
Print note:This impression is the earliest 'state' of the four impressions of K147 at the Freer; it appears to be between Kennedy's fifth and sixth states.  

 

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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'6.6:' (?) at lower right on the recto.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1470603  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.