157Battersea: Early MorningFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.262 State: 2/3 |  |
| 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: | 217 x 336 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 113 x 226 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 [Latin?] inscription in brown ink on the recto and another on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with light tone near the plate corners and edges |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks on the water and over the lower buildings at centre right |
| Print note: | Note that drypoint additions are made to the second state; the first state is pure etching. The ink looks a very dark brown/black. |
| 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: | 'W129 'Troubled Thames', 2nd State' by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1520202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.