174Battersea MornFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.18 State: 2/5 |  |
| 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 210), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £3.3.0; 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: | 156 x 224 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 148 x 223 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid, 'antique' |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | |
| Print tone: | with two small, carefully wiped plumes of smoke to the left of the rightmost smokestack |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: |
| 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: | ' "Battersea Morn" - Dry Point' at lower left on the verso possibly by Whistler |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 59-81 mm from left, height 8 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blind stamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '9286' at upper right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W.125 2nd State' at lower centre on the verso written by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1550103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.