166Price's Candle FactoryFreer Gallery of ArtAccession 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.