166Price's Candle FactoryFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.7 State: 4/13 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891); sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 204), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £2.5.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, September 1892 (Keppel receipt); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 208 x 318 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 151 x 227 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, faded ink inscription on 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: | traces of tone on the water, with diagonal wiping marks; inky plate mark at the top and sides |
| Note on foul biting: | a few tiny pits and scratches |
| Print note: |
| 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.' + butterfly 'imp.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | '2' at lower right to the right of the large butterfly signature |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | Signed twice, with a large shaded butterfly at lower right and a later butterfly below the plate mark at left |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blindstamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921) ; 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt); stylized device at centre on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '2.' at lower right on the verso; title and W number on the verso (possibly by C.L. Freer). |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1540107 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.