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Price's Candle Factory

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1892.17
State: 8/13

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, May 1892) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1892; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:205 x 324 mm  
Plate mark size:150 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 inscription in brown ink on the verso and sew holes in the top margin  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Arms of Amsterdam  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:smudges of tone at the lower right and lower left plate corners  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Kennedy's state descriptions are quite garbled; this impression has elements of his second, third and fourth states; the pennant in FGA 1892.17 does not conform to any of the Kennedy illustrations  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
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:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W124' at lower center on the verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1540203  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.