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Battersea: Early Morning

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession 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.