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178

St James's Street

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1934.599
State: 3/4

Collection credit:Bryan Lathrop Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), Chicago; passed to his wife; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1934.  
Additional acq. no:R 533  

 

Paper size:301 x 194 mm  
Plate mark size:279 x 175 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:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with light plate tone  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:This impression has a series of parallel horizontal drypoint lines to left of centre above the etched clouds.  

 

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:'JHH' blind stamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'2nd' State' at lower right recto; [stylized device] at lower centre verso; this may be Walter Dowdeswell's mark, see Lugt 799; 'K169 / cat 57' at lower left verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1690302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.