178St James's StreetFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.367 State: 4/4 |  |
| 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: | |
| Plate mark size: | 275 x 152 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with light tone at top, right and bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | some pits and scratches in the sky |
| Print note: | This is Kennedy's fourth state, with the reduced plate; it was formerly catalogued as the third state; FGA also has an impression of a reproduction of K169, in reverse; they call it a lithograph, but that is not necessarily a correct identification of the medium |
| 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: | According to FGA folder sheet: on margin in Mr. Freer's handwriting: 'The etching.' written by C.L.Freer in margin, partly erased 25 March 1924, on mid bottom edge, recto; 'W 140 St. James Place' in unidentified writing on recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1690303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.