163Fishing Boats, HastingsFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.36 State: 3b/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Bought from H.Wunderlich & Co. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 156 x 254 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 151 x 253 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | Colour is ivory discoloured to buff |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | S WISE & CO / 1823 (Chicago watermark 320) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Light plate tone on the sky at left and heavier tone, with left-right wiping marks, over the foreground |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks at upper left; the foul biting is less prominent than on FGA 1905.105 |
| Print note: | Drypoint was used only for the butterfly signature, the shading in the sky at the horizon and on the shore at left; the drypoint lines of the butterfly are rather faint and without burr, and the lines in the sky and on the shore are faint. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 55-56 mm from left, height 5 mm; butterfly of 1886/1887 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | pencil butterfly of 1887/1888 |
| Collector's mark: | 'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W131' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1580204 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.