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176

Wych Street, London

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 1/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:215 x 333 mm  
Plate mark size:213 x 137 mm  
Note on size:rough edges, except at the top  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid'  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Pro Patria?  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very light tone, more at the bottom  
Note on foul biting:some dots and patches at lower right  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler' in pencil on recto  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'1877 -', ' Wych Street - / London - /' on recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'S. P. AVERY / COLLECTION' (Lugt 41) stamp on recto  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'132' and 'Wedmore. 132.' on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1590201  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.