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166

Price's Candle Factory

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1891.14
State: 1/13

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1891; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:210 x 310 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Asian laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:see the note about the pattern created by the paper's surface fibres under 'Condition'  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:This impression conforms to Kennedy's description of the first state but was printed earlier than the impression used for his first state illustration  

 

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:butterfly 'imp.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'1st State -' (the 'st' superscript) at lower left to the right of the butterfly signature  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:a tiny, later butterfly  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W124' at lower centre verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1540105  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.