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157

Battersea: Early Morning

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1903.261
State: 1/3

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London; bought from Obach & Co., (receipts, 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:213 x 334 mm  
Plate mark size:113 x 226 mm  
Note on size:.  
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 [Latin?] inscription in brown ink on the verso  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:a trace of plate tone at right  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks on the water and over the lower buildings at centre right  
Print note:Brown/black ink  

 

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: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:'W.129 Troubled Thames, 1st State' at lower left on the recto by C.L. Freer; '133' at centre on the verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1520102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.