167The Tiny PoolFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.34 State: 3/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 206 x 160 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 99 x 67 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: | Vryheyt |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light, even, overall plate tone |
| Note on foul biting: | Scattered flecks; curved scratches above and below the butterfly signature |
| Print note: |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| 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: | small, late butterfly |
| Collector's mark: | 'B M' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'V, M5 [M2?] The plate unknown and undescribed? W. 73?' written by C.L. Freer on the bottom margin, recto, partly erased 16 June 1925. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1730303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.