174Battersea MornFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.106 State: 1/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Obach & Co., (receipt, 28 October 1905) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 170 x 247 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 147 x 225 mm |
| Note on size: | small margins; trimmed along a ruled graphite line at the bottom (and probably at the sides) |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | B/TH in elaborated circle (Chicago watermark 63) |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Somewhat uneven overall tone; with two small, carefully wiped plumes of smoke to the left of the rightmost smokestack. |
| Note on foul biting: | Tiny spot of corrosion on the plate at lower right, below the hull shown on a diagonal. |
| Print note: | The ink is a dark warm black. |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W125 Battersea Dawn- Obach + Co. June. 1905 Early State' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1550104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.