171Free Trade WharfFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1888.36 State: 4/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co. (receipt 10 November 1888) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 220 x 278 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 98 x 185 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial shell? |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | very pale overall plate tone |
| Note on foul biting: | light foul biting over the entire plate, with more pronounced patches--including a possible fingerprint--on the water; some of the foul biting on the water appears to have been burnished out |
| Print note: | The only drypoint lines on the plate appear to be the butterfly signature, a few remaining horizontal lines in the water at left, faint traces of horizontals and diagonals at upper left, and horizontals between the masts at left |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '[…]CKS', back to front, on roof of wharf building |
| 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: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '84073' at lower left on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W134' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'W 134. Free Trade Wharf (The Little Limehouse)' at lower left on the recto; 'pxi' (the 'x' may be a c next to a reversed c) at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1630504 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.