163Fishing Boats, HastingsFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.105 State: 2/4 |  |
| 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: | 212 x 333 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 152 x 253 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid paper, removed from a book, with sew holes in the upper margin |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'P' (?) countermark |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | heavily touched with black (india ink?) wash that shades the fishermen's huts, the two hulls and part of the mets at right and the two roofs in the right background |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | flecks in the sky at upper left |
| Print note: |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'Hastings -' |
| 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 5404' at lower left on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'plate destroyed W 131 Hastings Obach & Co.' unclear inscription; 'touched with Indian ink' written by C.L. Freer, erased 22 March 1924, bottom margin, recto; 'No 5404' in unidentified writing on recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1580203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.