141The Little Forge, LiverpoolFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1906.236 State: 16/16 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably sold by Whistler on either 28 April 1887 or 21 January 1889 to Walter Dowdeswell; C.W. Dowdeswell, London; Sir John Day, London; bought from Obach & Co. (receipt 22 September 1906) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1906; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 326 x 303 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 227 x 151 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 old [Dutch?] inscriptions in brown ink on the recto and the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | heavy plate tone on the ceiling and lighter tone on the walls and floor |
| Note on foul biting: | curved scratches to the right of the butterfly signature, prominent scratches at the lower left corner and a horizontal scratch to the right of the anvil |
| Print note: | This is the fourth 'state' in the series of impressions of K147 in the FGA; it appears to conform to the illustration of Kennedy's eighth state (but there are clearly more than eight states given the interim states among the other FGA impressions) |
| 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: | 'JCD' blindstamp (Sir John Day, Lugt 526); 'FROM / C.W. DOWDESWELL / 36 CHANCERY LANE' stamp (C.W. Dowdeswell, Lugt 690) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'r:r.o' (underlined and above) 'o.cv.o' (all to left of) 'D' at lower left on the recto; '6' (encircled) at lower right on the recto; '15' at the lower centre on the verso; 'Obach + Co Oct/06' at lower left on the verso and 'After crosshatching above head of mans [sic] / working at bench - The Little Forge W.115' at lower centre on the recto, presumably all by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1470802 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.