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165

From Billingsgate

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8504
State: 5/8

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Royal Collection, Windsor; sold to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1906; sold to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. 41644, valued at £27, stock no. changed to a41996); sold 1906 to unidentified collector for $500. Probably in the 1920s with Kennedy & Co., New York. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10567  

 

Paper size:208 x 329 mm  
Plate mark size:148 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:IV countermark  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Traces of tone near left, right and bottom plate edges and over part of image area  
Note on foul biting:Tiny flecks in the sky to left of centre  
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:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'VR' and crown stamp (Royal Collection, Windsor, Lugt 2535); 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 41644' (crossed out); 'a41996' (crossed out); 'a 65720' all on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W130'; '4' lower right on recto; 'SXX-' lower left on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1680302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.