164Pickle Herring WharfFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.366 State: 6/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 209 x 330 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 151 x 228 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with an old [Dutch?] inscription in brown ink on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'B/TH' in elaborated circle (Chicago watermark 62) |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Faint traces of tone at lower left and lower right |
| Note on foul biting: | Considerable foul biting on the sky and on the water at lower left and lower right; the centre of the water appears to have been cleaned |
| Print note: | This appears to be the earliest of the three impressions of Kennedy's fifth state at the FGA: the drypoint lines are strongest, and there is a left-right curving scratch by the reflections of the boats at right and a long right-left curving scratch above the butterfly signature; the scratch by the refletionsis not visible in FGA 1891.9 and 1905.173, while the scratch near the butterfly shows faintly on both. |
| 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: | 'W137' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1670504 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.